Progress against the field
Ryan Nel has dropped 8:12 behind the field from Cape Town 2024 to Cape Town 1 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 12:18 quicker, so 4:06 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 258 days between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 1 2026, still ended 2:51 ahead of the field.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:54 PB38/536Beat 93%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025 2:51 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:51 better than the field: 6:31 faster on the clock, against 3:40 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:40 faster This athlete6:31 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:25157/781Beat 80%
↑ 140 days after Johannesburg I 2025 2:15 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:34 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 10:49 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:15 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →10:49 faster This athlete8:34 faster -
Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:29:59106/422Beat 75%
↑ 161 days after Cape Town 2024 8:48 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:59 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:11 slower for everyone: 8:48 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:11 slower This athlete10:59 slower -
Cape Town21 Sep 2024Individual Open · Men1:19:0064/247Beat 74%