Progress against the field
Patrick van der Veen has dropped 18:20 behind the field from Karlsruhe 2024 to Rotterdam 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 12:10 quicker, so 6:10 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 274 days between Rotterdam 2025 and Utrecht 2025, cost 14:45 on 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 9 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:31:11740/1192Beat 38%
↑ 138 days after Utrecht 2025 3:35 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:44 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 5:19 faster for everyone, which leaves this 3:35 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:19 faster This athlete1:44 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Relay · Mixed1:01:118/68Beat 88%
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:32:55818/1337Beat 39%
↑ 274 days after Rotterdam 2025 14:45 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:45 behind the field: 13:57 slower on the clock, against 0:48 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:48 faster This athlete13:57 slower -
Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:58355/1283Beat 72%
↑ 140 days after Amsterdam 2024 2:29 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:33 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:56 faster for everyone: 2:29 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:56 faster This athlete0:33 slower -
Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:18:25 PB425/1539Beat 72%
↑ 208 days after Karlsruhe 2024 2:29 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:29 better than the field: 6:36 faster on the clock, against 4:07 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:07 faster This athlete6:36 faster -
Karlsruhe16 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:25:01352/774Beat 55%
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Amsterdam4 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:27:01459/1079Beat 58%
↑ 168 days after Rotterdam 2023 0:11 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:48 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:37 faster for everyone, so 0:11 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:37 faster This athlete2:48 faster -
Rotterdam20 May 2023Individual Open · Men1:29:49306/575Beat 47%
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Essen16 Nov 2019Individual Open · Men1:26:2799/219Beat 55%