Progress against the field
From Marseille 2024 to Bordeaux 2026, Simon Benoist-Canteau got 7:53 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:32 quicker, so 14:25 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 348 days between Marseille 2024 and Bordeaux 2025, still ended 8:57 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
4 races · 4 events
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Bordeaux30 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:08:37 PB96/988Beat 90%
↑ 314 days after Bordeaux 2025 1:04 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:00 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:04 faster for everyone, so 1:04 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:04 faster This athlete1:00 faster -
Lyon20 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:07:25 PB102/439Beat 77%
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Bordeaux20 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:37177/1431Beat 88%
↑ 348 days after Marseille 2024 8:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:57 better than the field: 13:25 faster on the clock, against 4:28 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:28 faster This athlete13:25 faster -
Marseille7 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men1:23:02756/1477Beat 49%