Progress against the field
From Johannesburg I 2025 to Cape Town 1 2026, Ricardo Lategan has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 8:35 quicker, so 8:34 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. The summary above covers Individual Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 6 events
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:56 PB88/291Beat 70%
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:25:1986/191Beat 55%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025 0:19 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:40 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:59 faster for everyone, so 0:19 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:59 faster This athlete1:40 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:2763/594Beat 89%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025, with Octavia De Sa 0:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:24 behind the field: 3:55 slower on the clock, against 3:31 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 slower This pair3:55 slower -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:12:50 PB26/96Beat 73%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:32 PB58/547Beat 89%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Pro · Men1:26:5978/146Beat 47%
↑ 140 days after Johannesburg I 2025 0:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:18 better than the field: 6:54 faster on the clock, against 6:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →6:36 faster This athlete6:54 faster -
Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Individual Pro · Men1:33:5365/105Beat 38%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Individual Pro · Men1:20:31 PB58/114Beat 49%
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Cape Town21 Sep 2024Relay · Mixed1:21:2117/26Beat 35%
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Cape Town21 Sep 2024Individual Pro · Men1:28:3050/85Beat 41%