Progress against the field
Thijs Bakker and Chris Jongejan have dropped 3:50 behind the field from Gent 2025 to Rotterdam 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 2:11 quicker, so 1:39 slower 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 Doubles Open · Men, with Chris Jongejan, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:12:36185/580Beat 68%
↑ 124 days after Gent 2025, with Chris Jongejan 3:50 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:39 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:11 faster for everyone: 3:50 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:11 faster This pair1:39 slower -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:57 PB115/280Beat 59%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:34 PB50/707Beat 93%
↑ 140 days after Amsterdam 2024, with Femke Van De Water 0:30 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:40 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:10 faster for everyone, so 0:30 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:10 faster This pair2:40 faster -
Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:1491/618Beat 85%
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Rotterdam6 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:23:22283/534Beat 47%