Progress against the field
ryan Vermeulen and Niels Berndsen have gained 1:27 on the field from Rotterdam 2025 to Amsterdam 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 5:08 quicker, so 6:35 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 2:30 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Men, with Niels Berndsen, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 5 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:04:06 PB118/385Beat 69%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men59:03 PB31/994Beat 97%
↑ 54 days after Utrecht 2025, with Niels Berndsen 1:03 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:27 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:30 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:03 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:30 faster This pair2:27 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Relay · Men55:433/51Beat 94%
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:3049/879Beat 94%
↑ 274 days after Rotterdam 2025, with Niels Berndsen 2:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:08 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:38 faster for everyone, so 2:30 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:38 faster This pair4:08 faster -
Utrecht28 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:2976/575Beat 87%
↑ 70 days after Maastricht 2025 3:37 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:01 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:36 faster for everyone: 3:37 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:36 faster This athlete0:01 slower -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:28 PB166/1352Beat 88%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:3840/335Beat 88%