Progress against the field
Between Rotterdam 2025 and Rotterdam 2026, Nick van den Ierssel pulled 2:24 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:07 quicker, so 8:31 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 274 days between Rotterdam 2025 and Utrecht 2025, still ended 11:46 ahead of the field.
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
3 races · 3 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:49:05367/401Beat 9%
↑ 138 days after Utrecht 2025 9:22 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:03 slower on the clock in a race that was 5:19 faster for everyone: 9:22 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:19 faster This athlete4:03 slower -
Utrecht28 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:45:02 PB487/575Beat 15%
↑ 274 days after Rotterdam 2025 11:46 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:34 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:48 faster for everyone, so 11:46 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:48 faster This athlete12:34 faster -
Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:57:36574/600Beat 4%