Progress against the field
Between Maastricht 2025 and Mechelen 2026, Dennis Kloppenburg and Arno Van Beest pulled 8:24 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:54 quicker, so 13:18 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Amsterdam 2026 → Mechelen 2026: 5:04 in 64 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 Pro · Men, with Arno Van Beest, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
14 races · 14 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Individual Pro · Men1:30:11314/399Beat 21%
↑ 281 days after Gent 2025 2:45 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:45 behind the field: 0:34 slower on the clock, against 2:11 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:11 faster This athlete0:34 slower -
Heerenveen14 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:01 PB76/494Beat 85%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:19:09351/1192Beat 71%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:03:37 PB193/493Beat 61%
↑ 64 days after Amsterdam 2026, with Arno Van Beest 5:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:04 better than the field: 5:47 faster on the clock, against 0:43 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:43 faster This pair5:47 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:09:2448/94Beat 49%
↑ 124 days after Maastricht 2025, with Arno Van Beest 3:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:20 better than the field: 7:31 faster on the clock, against 4:11 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:11 faster This pair7:31 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:29:37228/305Beat 25%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:19 PB669/2771Beat 76%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:22:12 PB88/115Beat 24%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:16:5584/131Beat 36%
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Heerenveen9 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:08603/1217Beat 51%
↑ 71 days after Rotterdam 2025 3:33 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:33 behind the field: 1:04 slower on the clock, against 2:29 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:29 faster This athlete1:04 slower -
Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:11:35389/736Beat 47%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:24:04551/1283Beat 57%
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Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:16:02444/855Beat 48%
↑ 187 days after Rotterdam 2024, with Robert Aarts 3:03 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:26 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:29 faster for everyone, so 3:03 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:29 faster This pair0:26 faster -
Rotterdam6 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Men1:16:28328/722Beat 55%