Progress against the field
From Belgium 2025 to Heerenveen 2026, Albert jan Baron got 10:18 faster than the field.
The clock says 18:54 faster, but the races themselves got 8:36 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 251 days between Belgium 2025 and Gent 2025, still ended 11:22 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.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Heerenveen14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:58123/966Beat 87%
↑ 29 days after Rotterdam 2026 1:59 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:12 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:47 faster for everyone: 1:59 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:47 faster This athlete0:12 slower -
Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:46 PB105/1192Beat 91%
↑ 124 days after Gent 2025 0:55 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:53 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:58 faster for everyone, so 0:55 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:58 faster This athlete4:53 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:22 PB82/593Beat 86%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:39294/1428Beat 79%
↑ 251 days after Belgium 2025 11:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:13 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:51 faster for everyone, so 11:22 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:51 faster This athlete14:13 faster -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:52937/1638Beat 43%