Progress against the field
From Heerenveen 2025 to Amsterdam 2026, Elian Musch and Tom van Niekerken got 8:06 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:51 quicker, so 12:57 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Utrecht 2025 → Amsterdam 2026: 8:23 on the field in 54 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 Doubles Open · Men, with Tom van Niekerken, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 4 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:40:50444/556Beat 20%
↑ 84 days after Amsterdam 2026 13:27 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
13:27 behind the field: 11:19 slower on the clock, against 2:08 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:08 faster This athlete11:19 slower -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:12:15 PB149/344Beat 57%
↑ 54 days after Utrecht 2025, with Tom van Niekerken 8:23 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:23 better than the field: 11:53 faster on the clock, against 3:30 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:30 faster This pair11:53 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:29:31 PB1088/1620Beat 33%
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:24:08306/461Beat 34%
↑ 203 days after Heerenveen 2025, with Tom van Niekerken 0:17 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:04 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:21 faster for everyone, so 0:17 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:21 faster This pair1:04 faster -
Heerenveen9 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:25:12253/309Beat 18%