Progress against the field
Ophélie Desseint has dropped 10:11 behind the field from Belgium 2025 to Rotterdam 2026.
The clock says 4:41 slower, but the races themselves got 5:30 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 200 days between Belgium 2025 and Paris 2025, cost 5:07 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:38:00384/695Beat 45%
↑ 124 days after Gent 2025 5:50 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:50 behind the field: 3:46 slower on the clock, against 2:04 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:04 faster This athlete3:46 slower -
Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Women1:34:14523/1009Beat 48%
↑ 51 days after Paris 2025 0:46 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:43 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:57 faster for everyone, so 0:46 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:57 faster This athlete4:43 faster -
Paris22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:38:57172/331Beat 48%
↑ 200 days after Belgium 2025 5:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:38 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:31 slower for everyone: 5:07 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:31 slower This athlete5:38 slower -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Women1:33:19 PB375/765Beat 51%