Progress against the field
Darren Sanders has dropped 1:43 behind the field from Cape Town 2025 to Cape Town 1 2026.
The clock says 3:04 faster, but the races themselves got 4:47 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Johannesburg 2025 → Cape Town 1 2026: 2:31 on the field in 125 days.
How this is worked out ⓘ
A finish time moves for two reasons: the athlete, and the race — its course, its floor, its day. For each pair of races in a row in one category, we take everyone who raced both and use the middle of how much they moved (the median) as "the race". Whatever is left is the athlete. Doubles are compared only when the same two people raced both, and told as the pair's; relays are left out. A pair with fewer than 15 athletes in common is not shown.
Every race
6 races · 5 events
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Relay · Men1:06:5110/50Beat 80%
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:09:54 PB26/99Beat 74%
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:21:11 PB51/181Beat 72%
↑ 125 days after Johannesburg 2025 2:31 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:31 better than the field: 12:30 faster on the clock, against 9:59 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →9:59 faster This athlete12:30 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:41189/652Beat 71%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025 4:14 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:26 slower on the clock in a race that was 5:12 slower for everyone: 4:14 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:12 slower This athlete9:26 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:24:15208/781Beat 73%
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Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:37 PB98/372Beat 74%