Progress against the field
From Cologne 2025 to Mechelen 2026, Alain Baelen and Thomas Schmitz got 3:50 faster than the field.
The clock says 5:56 faster, but the races themselves got 2:06 quicker for everyone.
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
6 races · 6 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:23:56336/457Beat 27%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:40:17550/580Beat 5%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:17:11 PB385/593Beat 35%
↑ 350 days after Cologne 2025, with Thomas Schmitz 3:50 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:56 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:06 faster for everyone, so 3:50 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:06 faster This pair5:56 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:21:59931/1164Beat 20%
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Rome26 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men2:51:33775/775Beat 0%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:23:07242/300Beat 19%