Progress against the field
Between Gent 2025 and Mechelen 2026, Max Geerlings lost 7:40 to the field.
The clock says 2:40 slower, but the races themselves got 5:00 quicker for everyone.
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 Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
13 races · 11 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:06:34144/316Beat 54%
↑ 157 days after Rotterdam 2026, with Bart Harmsen 0:38 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:02 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:24 slower for everyone: 0:38 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:24 slower This pair1:02 slower -
Heerenveen14 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:05:05 PB103/315Beat 67%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:05:32146/385Beat 62%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:25:30356/457Beat 22%
↑ 104 days after Gent 2025 7:40 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:40 slower on the clock in a race that was 5:00 faster for everyone: 7:40 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:00 faster This athlete2:40 slower -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · MenDNF—
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Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:22:50 PB182/305Beat 40%
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Relay · Men59:2115/38Beat 61%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:54 PB69/658Beat 90%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Relay · Men59:556/40Beat 85%
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Heerenveen9 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:27 PB89/529Beat 83%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:02 PB231/1638Beat 86%
↑ 37 days after Rotterdam 2025 3:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:03 better than the field: 3:58 faster on the clock, against 0:55 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:55 faster This athlete3:58 faster -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Relay · Men1:00:068/16Beat 50%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:00235/1283Beat 82%