Progress against the field
From Gent 2025 to Mechelen 2026, Jan De Backer got 5:32 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:00 quicker, so 10:32 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.
Every race
2 races · 2 events
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:05:51 PB98/457Beat 79%
↑ 104 days after Gent 2025 5:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:32 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:00 faster for everyone, so 5:32 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →5:00 faster This athlete10:32 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:16:23120/305Beat 61%