Progress against the field
From Paris 2025 to Rotterdam 2026, Niels Rutte has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
The clock says 7:40 faster, but the races themselves got 7:40 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
11 races · 8 events
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Heerenveen14 May 2026Individual Pro · Men1:04:39 PB51/454Beat 89%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men59:18 PB56/385Beat 86%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men59:24 PB4/556Beat 99%
↑ 175 days after Paris 2025 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:40 faster on the clock, and the race was 7:40 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →7:40 faster This athlete7:40 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:15:37634/994Beat 36%
↑ 257 days after Heerenveen 2025, with Marc Herwegh 16:20 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:20 behind the field: 12:53 slower on the clock, against 3:27 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:27 faster This pair12:53 slower -
Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men57:52 PB10/879Beat 99%
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Paris22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:07:0464/1347Beat 95%
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Heerenveen9 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:4452/529Beat 90%
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Heerenveen9 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:04:415/325Beat 99%
↑ 71 days after Rotterdam 2025 1:38 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:51 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:29 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:38 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:29 faster This athlete0:51 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:34 PB86/142Beat 39%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:32389/707Beat 45%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:05:3213/600Beat 98%