Progress against the field
From Verona 2025 to Rome 2026, Michele Castellano and Fabrizio Facco got 6:29 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:17 quicker, so 9:46 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Verona 2025 → Rimini 2026: 6:29 on the field in 174 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
4 races · 4 events
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Rome23 Sep 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:10:09 PB184/292Beat 37%
↑ 118 days after Rimini 2026, with Fabrizio Facco 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:06 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:06 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:06 faster This pair3:06 faster -
Rimini28 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:13:15150/295Beat 49%
↑ 174 days after Verona 2025, with Fabrizio Facco 6:29 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:29 better than the field: 6:40 faster on the clock, against 0:11 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:11 faster This pair6:40 faster -
Bologna4 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:21:30194/210Beat 8%
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Verona5 Dec 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:19:55293/351Beat 17%