Progress against the field
From Cape Town 2025 to Cape Town 1 2026, the field gained 1:09 on Samuel Spofana.
The clock says 2:31 faster, but the races themselves got 3:40 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
2 races · 2 events
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:29:50 PB173/536Beat 68%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025 1:09 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:31 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:40 faster for everyone, so 1:09 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:40 faster This athlete2:31 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:32:21330/781Beat 58%