Progress against the field
Between Valencia 2025 and Barcelona 2026, Denis Petitprez pulled 5:45 ahead of the field.
The clock says 13:13 faster, but the races themselves got 7:28 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Valencia 2025 → Bordeaux 2025: 4:16 on the field in 34 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.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Barcelona14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:27:00371/643Beat 42%
↑ 161 days after London Excel 2025 1:58 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:20 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:18 faster for everyone, so 1:58 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:18 faster This athlete0:20 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:201674/2771Beat 40%
↑ 14 days after Bordeaux 2025 3:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:38 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:11 faster for everyone, so 3:27 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:11 faster This athlete4:38 faster -
Bordeaux20 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:31:581056/1442Beat 27%
↑ 34 days after Valencia 2025 4:16 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:15 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:59 faster for everyone, so 4:16 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:59 faster This athlete8:15 faster -
Valencia17 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:40:13362/455Beat 20%
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NiceDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:23:04 PB276/547Beat 50%