Progress against the field
From Johannesburg 2025 to Cape Town 1 2026, Dennis Venter got 4:03 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 9:59 quicker, so 14:02 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 Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
4 races · 3 events
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:44:10 PB307/536Beat 43%
↑ 125 days after Johannesburg 2025 4:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:02 faster on the clock, and the race was 9:59 faster for everyone, so 4:03 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →9:59 faster This athlete14:02 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:38:03 PB367/594Beat 38%
↑ 273 days after Johannesburg I 2025, with SHIREEN VENTER 4:19 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:19 better than the field: 5:02 faster on the clock, against 0:43 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:43 faster This pair5:02 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:58:12464/652Beat 29%
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Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:43:05279/372Beat 25%