Progress against the field
Between Toronto 2024 and Toronto 2026, Marc-Olivier Mercier lost 9:32 to the field.
The clock says 3:08 slower, but the races themselves got 6:24 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 363 days between Toronto 2024 and Toronto 2025, cost 3:00 on 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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Toronto1 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:42:50739/1135Beat 35%
↑ 363 days after Toronto 2025 6:32 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:32 behind the field: 0:15 slower on the clock, against 6:17 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →6:17 faster This athlete0:15 slower -
Ottawa14 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed2:01:29 PB361/378Beat 5%
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Toronto3 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:42:35784/1264Beat 38%
↑ 363 days after Toronto 2024 3:00 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:53 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:07 faster for everyone: 3:00 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:07 faster This athlete2:53 slower -
Toronto5 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:39:42 PB271/416Beat 35%