Progress against the field
Kaj Smeets has dropped 5:00 behind the field from Maastricht 2025 to Rotterdam 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 9:33 quicker, so 4:33 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Maastricht 2025 → Gent 2025: 2:42 in 84 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
6 races · 6 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:04:4513/401Beat 97%
↑ 124 days after Gent 2025 7:42 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:42 behind the field: 3:44 slower on the clock, against 3:58 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:58 faster This athlete3:44 slower -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:08:40 PB143/457Beat 69%
↑ 118 days after Utrecht 2025 2:06 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:48 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 6:54 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:06 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:54 faster This athlete4:48 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Pro · Men58:06 PB37/298Beat 88%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:01:01 PB13/1428Beat 99%
↑ 84 days after Maastricht 2025 2:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:42 better than the field: 8:17 faster on the clock, against 5:35 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:35 faster This athlete8:17 faster -
Utrecht28 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:13:2843/215Beat 80%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:1870/1352Beat 95%