Progress against the field
Between Gent 2025 and Rotterdam 2026, Mark Bijkerk pulled 4:25 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:58 quicker, so 8:23 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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
7 races · 6 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:58 PB125/687Beat 82%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:31 PB132/310Beat 57%
↑ 138 days after Utrecht 2025, with Thomas De Vette 0:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 2:55 faster on the clock, against 3:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This pair2:55 faster -
Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:46:14359/401Beat 11%
↑ 124 days after Gent 2025 4:25 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:25 better than the field: 8:23 faster on the clock, against 3:58 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:58 faster This athlete8:23 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:21:57810/994Beat 19%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:54:371360/1428Beat 5%
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:17:26209/461Beat 55%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:26:05 PB1240/1851Beat 33%