Progress against the field
From Gent 2025 to Maastricht 2026, Tom Knapen and John Thoonen got 3:55 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:19 quicker, so 5:14 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
5 races · 5 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:13:08 PB367/816Beat 55%
↑ 281 days after Gent 2025, with John Thoonen 3:55 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:14 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:19 faster for everyone, so 3:55 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:19 faster This pair5:14 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:17:30 PB210/561Beat 63%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:18:22820/1164Beat 30%
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Valencia17 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:21:56393/527Beat 25%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:24:45766/898Beat 15%