Progress against the field
Ralph Van Weersch has dropped 4:35 behind the field from Gent 2025 to Heerenveen 2026.
The clock says 0:59 faster, but the races themselves got 5:34 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Gent 2025 → Amsterdam 2026: 3:55 in 40 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
12 races · 9 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:09 PB13/306Beat 96%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:3983/816Beat 90%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Relay · Mixed1:01:365/69Beat 93%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:1927/457Beat 94%
↑ 332 days after Paris 2025, with Eric Bosma 2:26 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:25 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 4:51 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:26 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:51 faster This pair2:25 faster -
Heerenveen14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:03114/490Beat 77%
↑ 113 days after Amsterdam 2026 8:30 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:30 behind the field: 5:57 slower on the clock, against 2:33 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:33 faster This athlete5:57 slower -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Relay · Men56:4513/53Beat 76%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:55 PB97/424Beat 77%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:08:06 PB123/1620Beat 92%
↑ 40 days after Gent 2025 3:55 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:56 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:01 faster for everyone, so 3:55 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:01 faster This athlete6:56 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:02309/1428Beat 78%
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:08:19 PB43/148Beat 71%
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Paris22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:03:4485/944Beat 91%
↑ 200 days after Belgium 2025, with Eric Bosma 0:22 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:30 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 0:52 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:22 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:52 faster This pair0:30 faster -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:14123/898Beat 86%