Progress against the field
Anne-Lotte Rouwenhorst and Justine Merken have gained 13:06 on the field from Maastricht 2025 to Heerenveen 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 5:50 quicker, so 18:56 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 188 days between Maastricht 2025 and Mechelen 2026, still ended 10:27 ahead of the field.
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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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Individual Open · Women1:48:03 PB160/201Beat 20%
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Heerenveen14 May 2026Doubles Open · Women1:31:32 PB376/513Beat 27%
↑ 49 days after Mechelen 2026, with Justine Merken 2:39 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:39 better than the field: 3:53 faster on the clock, against 1:14 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:14 faster This pair3:53 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:35:25306/380Beat 20%
↑ 188 days after Maastricht 2025, with Justine Merken 10:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:03 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:36 faster for everyone, so 10:27 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →4:36 faster This pair15:03 faster -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Women1:50:28307/329Beat 7%