Progress against the field
Between Gent 2025 and Rotterdam 2026, Hidde van der Beek and Merel Spanjers lost 1:54 to the field.
The clock says 0:34 faster, but the races themselves got 2:28 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 Doubles Open · Mixed, with Merel Spanjers, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 5 events
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Heerenveen14 May 2026Doubles Open · Men59:55 PB26/535Beat 95%
↑ 29 days after Rotterdam 2026, with Joost Huisman 1:10 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:20 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:30 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:10 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:30 faster This pair0:20 faster -
Heerenveen14 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:5260/494Beat 88%
↑ 113 days after Amsterdam 2026, with Martin Barnes 2:06 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:39 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:27 faster for everyone: 2:06 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:27 faster This pair0:39 slower -
Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:1533/674Beat 95%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:01:209/544Beat 98%
↑ 20 days after Mechelen 2026, with Merel Spanjers 0:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:41 behind the field: 0:56 slower on the clock, against 0:15 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:15 slower This pair0:56 slower -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:00:24 PB16/394Beat 96%
↑ 64 days after Amsterdam 2026, with Merel Spanjers 0:28 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:34 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:02 faster for everyone, so 0:28 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:02 faster This pair0:34 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:00:5814/496Beat 97%
↑ 40 days after Gent 2025, with Merel Spanjers 0:45 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:56 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:41 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:45 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:41 faster This pair0:56 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:1376/994Beat 92%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:01:5427/863Beat 97%