Progress against the field
From Belgium 2025 to Mechelen 2026, the field gained 4:21 on Raf Daems.
Over the same races everyone got 5:54 quicker, so 1:33 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 291 days between Belgium 2025 and Amsterdam 2026, cost 4:19 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
8 races · 8 events
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:21:24315/460Beat 32%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:12:13 PB163/747Beat 78%
↑ 64 days after Amsterdam 2026 0:02 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:22 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:24 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:24 faster This athlete2:22 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:35103/570Beat 82%
↑ 291 days after Belgium 2025 4:19 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:49 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:30 faster for everyone: 4:19 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:30 faster This athlete0:49 slower -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Individual Pro · Men1:31:09142/208Beat 32%
↑ 126 days after Berlin 2025 10:26 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:26 behind the field: 15:01 slower on the clock, against 4:35 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:35 slower This athlete15:01 slower -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Pro · Men1:16:08 PB127/196Beat 35%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:46299/1638Beat 82%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Pro · Men1:18:0840/72Beat 44%
↑ 140 days after Amsterdam 2024 7:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:15 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:57 faster for everyone, so 7:18 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:57 faster This athlete9:15 faster -
Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Individual Pro · Men1:27:23114/177Beat 36%