Progress against the field
Between Johannesburg 2025 and Johannesburg 2026, Mxolisi Ndwandwe and Mpilo Zimu pulled 7:15 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 8:03 quicker, so 15:18 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Johannesburg 2025 → Cape Town 1 2026: 9:30 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
3 races · 3 events
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:17:59169/603Beat 72%
↑ 57 days after Cape Town 1 2026, with Mpilo Zimu 2:15 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:27 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:48 faster for everyone: 2:15 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:48 faster This pair1:27 slower -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:16:32 PB101/291Beat 65%
↑ 125 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Mpilo Zimu 9:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:45 faster on the clock, and the race was 7:15 faster for everyone, so 9:30 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →7:15 faster This pair16:45 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:33:17294/439Beat 33%