Progress against the field
Kenneth van Mechelen and Olaf van Leipsig have dropped 7:08 behind the field from Heerenveen 2025 to Heerenveen 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 4:39 quicker, so 2:29 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 203 days between Heerenveen 2025 and Utrecht 2025, still ended 1:03 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
3 races · 3 events
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Heerenveen14 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:24241/434Beat 45%
↑ 167 days after Utrecht 2025, with Olaf van Leipsig 8:11 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:11 behind the field: 4:53 slower on the clock, against 3:18 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:18 faster This pair4:53 slower -
Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:31 PB83/461Beat 82%
↑ 203 days after Heerenveen 2025, with Olaf van Leipsig 1:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:24 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:21 faster for everyone, so 1:03 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:21 faster This pair2:24 faster -
Heerenveen9 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:11:55193/529Beat 64%