Progress against the field
Luca Van Tichelen has gained 8:29 on the field from Cologne 2025 to Maastricht 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 4:16 quicker, so 12:45 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 231 days between Cologne 2025 and Madrid 2025, still ended 4:54 ahead of the field.
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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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:05:4647/1119Beat 96%
↑ 177 days after Mechelen 2026 0:26 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:26 behind the field: 2:13 slower on the clock, against 1:47 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:47 slower This athlete2:13 slower -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:03:33 PB36/1363Beat 97%
↑ 119 days after Madrid 2025 4:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:39 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:38 faster for everyone, so 4:01 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →5:38 faster This athlete9:39 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:12270/1361Beat 80%
↑ 231 days after Cologne 2025 4:54 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:19 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:25 faster for everyone, so 4:54 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:25 faster This athlete5:19 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:31366/1182Beat 69%