Progress against the field
Between Heerenveen 2025 and Heerenveen 2026, Frans Mussche kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:36 quicker, so 2:25 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 237 days between Maastricht 2025 and Heerenveen 2026, still ended 1:05 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. The summary above covers Individual Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:08:4637/546Beat 93%
↑ 295 days after Utrecht 2025 4:20 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:30 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:50 faster for everyone: 4:20 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:50 faster This athlete0:30 slower -
Heerenveen14 May 2026Individual Pro · Men1:13:48 PB160/454Beat 65%
↑ 237 days after Maastricht 2025 1:05 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:46 faster on the clock, and the race was 6:41 faster for everyone, so 1:05 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →6:41 faster This athlete7:46 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Pro · MenDNF—
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:16 PB42/1337Beat 97%
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Paris22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:29199/1347Beat 85%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Individual Pro · Men1:21:3494/208Beat 55%
↑ 133 days after Heerenveen 2025 1:16 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:16 behind the field: 5:21 slower on the clock, against 4:05 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:05 slower This athlete5:21 slower -
Heerenveen9 May 2025Individual Pro · Men1:16:1365/216Beat 70%