Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 2025 and Johannesburg 2025, Ambrose Bates kept pace with the field.
The clock says 5:18 slower, but the races themselves got 5:12 slower for everyone.
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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 4 events
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:26 PB110/603Beat 82%
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Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:40:11260/652Beat 60%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025 0:06 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 5:18 slower on the clock, against 5:12 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:12 slower This athlete5:18 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:33:19 PB374/547Beat 32%
↑ 140 days after Johannesburg I 2025, with Aneesa Dowden Bates 8:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:42 better than the field: 16:08 faster on the clock, against 7:26 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →7:26 faster This pair16:08 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:53 PB378/781Beat 52%
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Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:49:27310/372Beat 17%