Progress against the field
Between Gent 2025 and Maastricht 2026, Bernd Van de Cruys and Karel Cardinaels lost 0:44 to the field.
The clock says 2:07 faster, but the races themselves got 2:51 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Rotterdam 2026 → Maastricht 2026: 2:41 in 157 days.
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
3 races · 3 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:09:06 PB239/816Beat 71%
↑ 157 days after Rotterdam 2026, with Karel Cardinaels 2:41 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:40 faster for everyone, so 2:41 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:40 faster This pair3:21 faster -
Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:12:27201/580Beat 65%
↑ 124 days after Gent 2025, with Karel Cardinaels 3:25 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:25 behind the field: 1:14 slower on the clock, against 2:11 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:11 faster This pair1:14 slower -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:11:13460/1164Beat 61%