Progress against the field
Between Gent 2025 and Rotterdam 2026, Dominique Smit pulled 3:53 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:09 quicker, so 9:02 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Gent 2025 → Amsterdam 2026: 7:32 in 40 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 3 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:10284/1047Beat 73%
↑ 84 days after Amsterdam 2026, with Desiree Muller 3:17 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:27 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:50 faster for everyone: 3:17 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:50 faster This pair2:27 slower -
Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:18:40162/556Beat 71%
↑ 84 days after Amsterdam 2026 3:39 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:31 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:08 faster for everyone: 3:39 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:08 faster This athlete1:31 slower -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:43 PB366/1206Beat 70%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:17:09 PB141/570Beat 75%
↑ 40 days after Gent 2025 7:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:33 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:01 faster for everyone, so 7:32 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:01 faster This athlete10:33 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:42873/1428Beat 39%