Progress against the field
From Rotterdam 2025 to Rotterdam 2026, Leon Pauwels has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
The clock says 4:00 faster, but the races themselves got 4:08 quicker for everyone.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:27:41 PB627/1192Beat 47%
↑ 412 days after Rotterdam 2025 0:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:00 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:08 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →4:08 faster This athlete4:00 faster -
Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:31:41813/1283Beat 37%
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Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:14:29 PB388/855Beat 55%
↑ 187 days after Rotterdam 2024, with Bob Tito 1:35 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:54 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:29 faster for everyone, so 1:35 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:29 faster This pair1:54 faster -
Rotterdam6 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Men1:16:23326/722Beat 55%