Progress against the field
From Bordeaux 2025 to Geneva 2026, Florent Besombes got 6:42 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:24 quicker, so 11:06 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Barcelona 2026 → Rome 2026: 4:57 in 132 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 Individual Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 6 events
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Geneva9 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:12:28 PB151/478Beat 68%
↑ 16 days after Rome 2026 2:14 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:10 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:56 faster for everyone, so 2:14 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:56 faster This athlete4:10 faster -
Geneva9 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:07:56239/1072Beat 78%
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Rome23 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:39 PB126/1062Beat 88%
↑ 132 days after Barcelona 2026 1:05 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:05 better than the field: 1:38 faster on the clock, against 0:33 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:33 faster This athlete1:38 faster -
Rome23 Sep 2026Individual Pro · Men1:16:38167/362Beat 54%
↑ 132 days after Barcelona 2026 4:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:24 faster for everyone, so 4:57 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:24 faster This athlete5:21 faster -
Barcelona14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:11:17210/1158Beat 82%
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Barcelona14 May 2026Individual Pro · Men1:21:59413/618Beat 33%
↑ 175 days after Bordeaux 2025 0:29 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:35 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:04 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:29 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:04 faster This athlete1:35 faster -
Toulouse19 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:14:49 PB421/511Beat 18%
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Bordeaux20 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:23:34103/168Beat 39%
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Paris22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:58 PB35/851Beat 96%