Progress against the field
Between Marseille 2024 and Rome 2025, Essam El Baze lost 10:18 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:34 quicker, so 5:44 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Marseille 2024 → Paris 1 2025: 2:43 on the field in 132 days.
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
8 races · 8 events
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Lyon20 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:33:08413/439Beat 6%
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Lisboa1 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:28:24 PB571/636Beat 10%
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Miami3 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:51:511243/1462Beat 15%
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Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:48:411259/1367Beat 8%
↑ 161 days after Paris 1 2025 13:01 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:18 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:43 faster for everyone: 13:01 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:43 faster This athlete12:18 slower -
Paris 118 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:36:23 PB560/659Beat 15%
↑ 132 days after Marseille 2024 2:43 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:43 better than the field: 6:34 faster on the clock, against 3:51 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:51 faster This athlete6:34 faster -
Marseille7 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men1:42:571315/1477Beat 11%
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Paris9 Nov 2024Individual Open · MenDNF—
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New York1 Jun 2024Individual Open · Men1:43:03677/895Beat 24%