Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 2024 and Cape Town 2025, Etienne Van Wyk kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:21 quicker, so 5:34 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. The summary above covers Individual Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Helsinki9 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:33 PB185/718Beat 74%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:15:21122/560Beat 78%
↑ 84 days after Amsterdam 2026, with Illa Booysen 5:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:38 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:50 faster for everyone, so 5:48 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:50 faster This pair6:38 faster -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:07:19 PB40/103Beat 61%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:59305/506Beat 40%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:54 PB1054/1361Beat 23%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Pro · Men1:21:07 PB59/146Beat 60%
↑ 301 days after Cape Town 2024 0:13 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:13 better than the field: 5:34 faster on the clock, against 5:21 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:21 faster This athlete5:34 faster -
Cape Town21 Sep 2024Individual Pro · Men1:26:4145/85Beat 47%