Progress against the field
Between Rotterdam 2025 and Lisboa 2026, Marc van Versendaal pulled 3:21 ahead of the field.
The clock says 11:00 faster, but the races themselves got 7:39 quicker for everyone.
273 days between Rotterdam 2025 and Madrid 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 4:32 better than the field.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Lisboa1 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:15:33 PB222/887Beat 75%
↑ 155 days after Madrid 2025 1:11 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:02 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:13 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:11 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:13 faster This athlete2:02 faster -
Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed59:29 PB23/842Beat 97%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:17:35438/1361Beat 68%
↑ 273 days after Rotterdam 2025 4:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:58 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:26 faster for everyone, so 4:32 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:26 faster This athlete8:58 faster -
Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:26:33647/1283Beat 50%