Progress against the field
From Gent 2025 to Berlin 2026, the field gained 4:46 on Thomas Van Der Meijden and Melissa Giele.
The clock says 1:56 slower, but the races themselves got 2:50 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Mixed, with Melissa Giele, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
11 races · 7 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:15:35164/577Beat 72%
↑ 37 days after Rotterdam 2026, with Melissa Giele 3:50 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:01 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:49 faster for everyone: 3:50 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:49 faster This pair3:01 slower -
Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:56 PB61/580Beat 90%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:34 PB96/544Beat 82%
↑ 124 days after Gent 2025, with Melissa Giele 0:56 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:05 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:01 faster for everyone, so 0:56 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:01 faster This pair1:05 faster -
Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:11:26 PB252/385Beat 35%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:39328/994Beat 67%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:15:08 PB371/1620Beat 77%
↑ 257 days after Heerenveen 2025 1:55 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:55 better than the field: 6:02 faster on the clock, against 4:07 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:07 faster This athlete6:02 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:18:11152/570Beat 73%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:39219/863Beat 75%
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Beijing23 Aug 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:15:5073/291Beat 75%
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Heerenveen9 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:10447/1217Beat 63%
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Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:30:30253/376Beat 33%