Progress against the field
From Madrid 2025 to Hamburg 2026, Warren Houtaeve got 12:47 faster than the field.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 12:57 faster on the clock is close to the whole story.
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
6 races · 6 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:08:40 PB36/579Beat 94%
↑ 335 days after Madrid 2025 12:47 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:57 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:10 faster for everyone, so 12:47 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:10 faster This athlete12:57 faster -
Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:25 PB48/349Beat 86%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:42194/1164Beat 83%
↑ 84 days after Maastricht 2025, with Tom Stechele 2:42 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:06 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:48 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:42 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:48 faster This pair1:06 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:37513/1312Beat 61%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:4853/354Beat 85%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:47 PB123/722Beat 83%