Progress against the field
Ruben D'Hooghe has dropped 3:18 behind the field from Belgium 2025 to Mechelen 2026.
The clock says 4:04 faster, but the races themselves got 7:22 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 251 days between Belgium 2025 and Gent 2025, still ended 4:08 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
3 races · 3 events
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:25:49817/1363Beat 40%
↑ 104 days after Gent 2025 7:26 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:26 behind the field: 2:55 slower on the clock, against 4:31 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:31 faster This athlete2:55 slower -
Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:54 PB674/1428Beat 53%
↑ 251 days after Belgium 2025 4:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:59 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:51 faster for everyone, so 4:08 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:51 faster This athlete6:59 faster -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:29:53989/1638Beat 40%