Progress against the field
Between Johannesburg I 2025 and Johannesburg 2025, Awanda Madlala pulled 9:22 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:37 quicker, so 14:59 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Cape Town 2025 → Johannesburg 2025: 9:48 on the field in 133 days.
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 2026Doubles Open · Men1:07:35 PB22/308Beat 93%
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Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:13 PB88/652Beat 87%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025 9:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 5:12 slower for everyone and the clock still says 4:36 faster: 9:48 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:12 slower This athlete4:36 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:49256/781Beat 67%
↑ 140 days after Johannesburg I 2025 0:26 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:23 faster on the clock, yet the race was 10:49 faster for everyone, so 0:26 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →10:49 faster This athlete10:23 faster -
Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:38:12192/422Beat 55%