Progress against the field
Between Utrecht 2025 and Rotterdam 2026, Thomas De Vette and Mark Bijkerk kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:02 quicker, so 2:55 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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 · Mixed1:11:04 PB156/808Beat 81%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:31 PB132/310Beat 57%
↑ 138 days after Utrecht 2025, with Mark Bijkerk 0:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:55 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:02 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This pair2:55 faster -
Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:17:26209/461Beat 55%