Progress against the field
Between Maastricht 2025 and Mechelen 2026, Paul Van Rijen and Jordi de Weert pulled 3:04 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:48 quicker, so 9:52 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Maastricht 2025 → Gent 2025: 3:09 on the field in 84 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
4 races · 4 events
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Heerenveen14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:25:48 PB525/966Beat 46%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:31 PB200/593Beat 66%
↑ 104 days after Gent 2025, with Jordi de Weert 0:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:55 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:00 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:00 faster This pair2:55 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:11:26473/1164Beat 59%
↑ 84 days after Maastricht 2025, with Jordi de Weert 3:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:09 better than the field: 6:57 faster on the clock, against 3:48 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:48 faster This pair6:57 faster -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:18:23205/354Beat 42%