Progress against the field
Between Gent 2025 and Maastricht 2026, Milan Van den Borg pulled 3:28 ahead of the field.
The clock says 7:19 faster, but the races themselves got 3:51 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Gent 2025 → Mechelen 2026: 4:16 on the field in 104 days.
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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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Individual Pro · Men1:20:17214/399Beat 46%
↑ 157 days after Rotterdam 2026 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:14 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:14 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:14 faster This athlete0:14 faster -
Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:20:31160/348Beat 54%
↑ 20 days after Mechelen 2026 0:48 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:11 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:23 slower for everyone: 0:48 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:23 slower This athlete2:11 slower -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:18:20 PB278/457Beat 39%
↑ 104 days after Gent 2025 4:16 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:16 better than the field: 9:16 faster on the clock, against 5:00 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:00 faster This athlete9:16 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:27:36216/305Beat 29%