Progress against the field
Between Gent 2025 and Maastricht 2026, Ruben Janssen pulled 7:02 ahead of the field.
The clock says 11:21 faster, but the races themselves got 4:19 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Gent 2025 → Rotterdam 2026: 7:20 on the field in 124 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.
Every race
7 races · 6 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:51169/816Beat 79%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:14105/1119Beat 91%
↑ 128 days after Heerenveen 2026 0:35 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:01 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:26 slower for everyone: 0:35 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:26 slower This athlete2:01 slower -
Heerenveen14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:07:13 PB80/966Beat 92%
↑ 29 days after Rotterdam 2026 0:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:04 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:47 faster for everyone, so 0:17 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:47 faster This athlete2:04 faster -
Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:1792/1192Beat 92%
↑ 124 days after Gent 2025 7:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:20 better than the field: 11:18 faster on the clock, against 3:58 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:58 faster This athlete11:18 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed59:53 PB1/5Beat 80%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:33 PB140/994Beat 86%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:20:35566/1428Beat 60%