Progress against the field
Between Heerenveen 2025 and Utrecht 2025, Niek Hugen and marwan van Heugten pulled 7:24 ahead of the field.
The clock says 9:45 faster, but the races themselves got 2:21 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Heerenveen 2025 → Maastricht 2025: 6:52 on the field in 133 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 Doubles Open · Men, with marwan van Heugten, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Heerenveen14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:50 PB206/966Beat 79%
↑ 113 days after Amsterdam 2026 1:36 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:57 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:33 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:36 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:33 faster This athlete0:57 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:47350/1620Beat 78%
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men59:30 PB25/879Beat 97%
↑ 70 days after Maastricht 2025, with marwan van Heugten 0:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:49 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:17 faster for everyone, so 0:32 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:17 faster This pair1:49 faster -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:1951/821Beat 94%
↑ 133 days after Heerenveen 2025, with marwan van Heugten 6:52 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:52 better than the field: 7:56 faster on the clock, against 1:04 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:04 faster This pair7:56 faster -
Heerenveen9 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:15141/529Beat 73%