Progress against the field
Between Belgium 2025 and Mechelen 2026, Laurent Adam kept pace with the field.
The clock says 4:38 faster, but the races themselves got 4:27 quicker for everyone.
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 · 4 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:23:16216/444Beat 51%
↑ 281 days after Gent 2025, with Marine Adam 2:25 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:26 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:59 faster for everyone: 2:25 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:59 faster This pair1:26 slower -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:39 PB303/1363Beat 78%
↑ 355 days after Belgium 2025 0:11 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:38 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:27 faster for everyone, so 0:11 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:27 faster This athlete4:38 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:50 PB458/863Beat 47%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:17464/1638Beat 72%