Progress against the field
Between Paris 1 2025 and Lyon 2026, Philippe Besnard pulled 24:50 ahead of the field.
The clock says 29:25 faster, but the races themselves got 4:35 quicker for everyone.
236 days between Rome 2025 and Lyon 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 8:28 better than 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
6 races · 6 events
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Bordeaux30 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:15:57 PB241/445Beat 46%
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Lyon20 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:21:35 PB626/1513Beat 59%
↑ 236 days after Rome 2025 8:28 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:20 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:52 faster for everyone, so 8:28 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:52 faster This athlete12:20 faster -
Bordeaux20 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:37:28978/1003Beat 3%
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Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:551043/1367Beat 24%
↑ 161 days after Paris 1 2025 16:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:22 better than the field: 17:05 faster on the clock, against 0:43 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:43 faster This athlete17:05 faster -
Paris 118 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:51:001351/1422Beat 5%
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NiceDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:24:26916/1562Beat 41%