Progress against the field
Between Stockholm 2025 and Helsinki 2026, Josef Heijbel pulled 8:43 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:01 quicker, so 15:44 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Stockholm 2025 → Copenhagen 2026: 5:01 in 85 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
6 races · 6 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:19:25 PB284/653Beat 57%
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Helsinki9 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:39 PB207/913Beat 77%
↑ 23 days after Warsaw 2026 0:21 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:21 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:42 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:21 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This athlete1:21 faster -
Warsaw16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:16:00176/555Beat 68%
↑ 34 days after Copenhagen 2026 4:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:02 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:59 faster for everyone, so 4:03 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:59 faster This athlete8:02 faster -
Copenhagen13 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:24:02418/900Beat 54%
↑ 85 days after Stockholm 2025 5:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:20 faster for everyone, so 5:01 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:20 faster This athlete6:21 faster -
Stockholm18 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:30:23841/1315Beat 36%
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BudapestDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:20:07183/514Beat 64%