Progress against the field
Between Utrecht 2025 and Heerenveen 2026, Emiel Velnaar pulled 2:40 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:40 quicker, so 10:20 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Utrecht 2025 → Amsterdam 2026: 2:22 in 54 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
6 races · 6 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men59:17 PB14/239Beat 94%
↑ 157 days after Rotterdam 2026, with Jarno van Leeuwen 0:58 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:58 better than the field: 1:38 faster on the clock, against 0:40 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:40 faster This pair1:38 faster -
Heerenveen14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:04:39 PB43/966Beat 96%
↑ 113 days after Amsterdam 2026 0:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:18 better than the field: 2:51 faster on the clock, against 2:33 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:33 faster This athlete2:51 faster -
Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:5537/674Beat 95%
↑ 208 days after Maastricht 2025, with Jarno van Leeuwen 0:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:26 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:31 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 faster This pair3:26 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:07:30113/1620Beat 93%
↑ 54 days after Utrecht 2025 2:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:22 better than the field: 7:29 faster on the clock, against 5:07 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:07 faster This athlete7:29 faster -
Utrecht28 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:59180/1337Beat 87%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:21105/821Beat 87%