Progress against the field
Between Sports Direct HYROX London 2024 and London Excel 2025, Simon Mitchell and Ben Hoeksma lost 0:25 to the field.
The clock says 4:45 faster, but the races themselves got 5:10 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 370 days between London 2024 and London Excel 2025, still ended 1:41 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Men, with Ben Hoeksma, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:28:14506/605Beat 16%
↑ 533 days after Berlin 2025, with Panikos Papagapiou 4:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:21 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:44 faster for everyone: 4:05 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:44 faster This pair1:21 slower -
Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:48:15 PB850/993Beat 14%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:22:00 PB1722/2102Beat 18%
↑ 370 days after London 2024, with Ben Hoeksma 1:41 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:41 better than the field: 4:38 faster on the clock, against 2:57 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:57 faster This pair4:38 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:44 PB563/889Beat 37%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:26:53473/496Beat 5%
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London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:26:38840/984Beat 15%
↑ 209 days after Sports Direct HYROX London 2024, with Ben Hoeksma 2:06 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:07 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:13 faster for everyone, so 2:06 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:13 faster This pair0:07 faster -
Sports Direct HYROX London4 May 2024Doubles Open · Men1:26:45893/1033Beat 14%