Progress against the field
Between Bordeaux 2025 and Bordeaux 2026, Jules Merlin and Johan Mathieu pulled 2:10 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:46 quicker, so 3:56 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 Doubles Open · Men, with Johan Mathieu, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 3 events
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Bordeaux30 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:46 PB119/826Beat 86%
↑ 314 days after Bordeaux 2025, with Johan Mathieu 2:10 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:56 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:46 faster for everyone, so 2:10 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:46 faster This pair3:56 faster -
Bordeaux30 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:5850/445Beat 89%
↑ 314 days after Bordeaux 2025, with Raphaël Lacaille 2:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:06 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:46 faster for everyone, so 2:20 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:46 faster This pair4:06 faster -
Paris GP23 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:08:09 PB96/1236Beat 92%
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Bordeaux20 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:08:04285/874Beat 67%
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Bordeaux20 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:42225/1003Beat 78%