Progress against the field
Between Rimini 2025 and Rome 2026, luca balzarotti pulled 5:09 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:03 quicker, so 11:12 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 362 days between Rome 2025 and Rome 2026, still ended 4:05 ahead of 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
5 races · 5 events
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Rome23 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:03:45 PB17/1062Beat 98%
↑ 362 days after Rome 2025 4:05 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:10 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:05 faster for everyone, so 4:05 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:05 faster This athlete8:10 faster -
Turin30 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:24:14 PB104/174Beat 40%
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Verona5 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:14:06 PB541/1088Beat 50%
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Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:55278/1367Beat 80%
↑ 119 days after Rimini 2025 1:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:04 better than the field: 3:02 faster on the clock, against 1:58 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:58 faster This athlete3:02 faster -
Rimini30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:57258/1225Beat 79%