Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 2025 and Johannesburg 2026, Simphiwe Ndaba and Mkateko Maseko pulled 1:38 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:20 quicker, so 6:58 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
182 days between Johannesburg 2025 and Johannesburg 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 3:20 behind the field.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Women2:06:10 PB879/1061Beat 17%
↑ 182 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Mkateko Maseko 3:20 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:44 faster on the clock, yet the race was 7:04 faster for everyone, so 3:20 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →7:04 faster This pair3:44 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Women2:09:54621/714Beat 13%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025, with Mkateko Maseko 4:58 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 1:44 slower for everyone and the clock still says 3:14 faster: 4:58 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:44 slower This pair3:14 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Women2:13:08694/723Beat 4%
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Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Relay · Women1:54:5632/38Beat 16%