Progress against the field
From Belgium 2025 to Mechelen 2026, the field gained 4:10 on Sam Benetti.
Over the same races everyone got 7:22 quicker, so 3:12 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 251 days between Belgium 2025 and Gent 2025, cost 9:13 on 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 9 events
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Rome23 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:04:50 PB49/1051Beat 95%
↑ 153 days after Paris GP 2026, with Jorina Geuens 0:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:34 better than the field: 0:59 faster on the clock, against 0:25 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:25 faster This pair0:59 faster -
Maastricht19 Sep 2026Individual Pro · Men1:09:21 PB97/399Beat 76%
↑ 157 days after Rotterdam 2026 2:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:16 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:14 faster for everyone, so 2:02 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:14 faster This athlete2:16 faster -
Paris GP23 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:4920/486Beat 96%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:11:3776/348Beat 78%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men55:04 PB4/867Beat 100%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:01:16 PB18/747Beat 98%
↑ 104 days after Gent 2025 5:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:34 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:31 faster for everyone, so 5:03 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:31 faster This athlete9:34 faster -
Turin30 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men55:098/1060Beat 99%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:50155/1428Beat 89%
↑ 251 days after Belgium 2025 9:13 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:13 behind the field: 6:22 slower on the clock, against 2:51 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:51 faster This athlete6:22 slower -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men56:049/821Beat 99%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:04:2850/1638Beat 97%