Progress against the field
Between Gent 2025 and Rotterdam 2026, Frank Smael and Kars Krijnen pulled 1:10 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:19 quicker, so 4:29 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:13:12 PB218/580Beat 62%
↑ 20 days after Mechelen 2026, with Kars Krijnen 0:10 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:10 better than the field: 0:29 faster on the clock, against 0:19 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:19 faster This pair0:29 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:13:41309/593Beat 48%
↑ 104 days after Gent 2025, with Kars Krijnen 1:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:00 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:00 faster for everyone, so 1:00 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:00 faster This pair4:00 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:17:41787/1164Beat 32%