Progress against the field
Between Maastricht 2025 and Mechelen 2026, Lars Wiegman and Wessel Van Nes pulled 5:16 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:55 quicker, so 10:11 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Maastricht 2025 → Amsterdam 2026: 4:07 in 124 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 Wessel Van Nes, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Heerenveen14 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:11:13 PB210/494Beat 58%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:18:39 PB122/401Beat 70%
↑ 412 days after Rotterdam 2025 17:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
17:27 better than the field: 21:35 faster on the clock, against 4:08 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:08 faster This athlete21:35 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:11:30263/593Beat 56%
↑ 64 days after Amsterdam 2026, with Wessel Van Nes 1:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:58 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:49 faster for everyone, so 1:09 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:49 faster This pair1:58 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:13:28200/342Beat 42%
↑ 124 days after Maastricht 2025, with Wessel Van Nes 4:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:07 better than the field: 8:13 faster on the clock, against 4:06 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:06 faster This pair8:13 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:42 PB325/863Beat 62%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:21:41237/354Beat 33%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:40:14498/600Beat 17%