Progress against the field
Between Amsterdam 2024 and Heerenveen 2025, Max Niessen lost 2:53 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:06 quicker, so 1:13 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
27 races · 23 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:02:5718/687Beat 97%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Relay · Mixed1:27:3152/69Beat 25%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:01:35 PB82/385Beat 79%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:04:2962/962Beat 94%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:20:40 PB69/107Beat 36%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:5471/863Beat 92%
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Heerenveen9 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:20 PB99/1217Beat 92%
↑ 146 days after Frankfurt 2024 0:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:28 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:25 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:25 faster This athlete3:28 faster -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:02:1122/722Beat 97%
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Katowice22 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:03:5024/275Beat 91%
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Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men1:12:48265/1480Beat 82%
↑ 65 days after Amsterdam 2024 2:56 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:15 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:41 faster for everyone: 2:56 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:41 faster This athlete2:15 slower -
Poznan2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:02:2944/265Beat 83%
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Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:10:26233/855Beat 73%
↑ 341 days after Amsterdam 2023, with Chris Van Grinsven 8:45 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:29 slower on the clock in a race that was 4:16 faster for everyone: 8:45 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:16 faster This pair4:29 slower -
Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:10:33147/1539Beat 90%
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Rotterdam6 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:01:22 PB4/534Beat 99%
↑ 77 days after Maastricht 2024, with Kristina Erman 0:40 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:24 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:04 faster for everyone, so 0:40 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:04 faster This pair1:24 faster -
Karlsruhe16 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men58:31 PB10/306Beat 97%
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Katowice24 Feb 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:3417/81Beat 79%
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Maastricht20 Jan 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:02:468/230Beat 97%
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Paris11 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:19:29140/761Beat 82%
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Amsterdam4 Nov 2023Relay · Mixed1:08:473/22Beat 86%
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Amsterdam4 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Men1:05:5749/411Beat 88%
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Milan7 Oct 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:0010/149Beat 93%
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Madrid23 Sep 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:5025/239Beat 90%
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Rotterdam20 May 2023Individual Open · Men1:31:39335/575Beat 42%
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Rotterdam20 May 2023Relay · Mixed1:09:253/18Beat 83%
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World Championships NiceDate unknownDoubles Pro · Mixed1:04:12 PB160/297Beat 46%
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KölnDate unknownDoubles Open · Men1:01:5941/558Beat 93%
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KölnDate unknownDoubles Open · Mixed1:17:2468/213Beat 68%