Progress against the field
Between Johannesburg 2025 and Johannesburg 2026, Marinus Van der Merwe and Fourie van Pletzen lost 1:25 to the field.
The clock says 5:04 faster, but the races themselves got 6:29 quicker 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:24:02 PB276/603Beat 54%
↑ 182 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Fourie van Pletzen 1:25 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:04 faster on the clock, yet the race was 6:29 faster for everyone, so 1:25 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:29 faster This pair5:04 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:29:06247/439Beat 44%
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Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:25:21158/325Beat 51%