Progress against the field
From Amsterdam 2024 to Maastricht 2026, the field gained 0:42 on Karen Smet.
The clock says 3:43 faster, but the races themselves got 4:25 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 355 days between Belgium 2025 and Mechelen 2026, still ended 1:14 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
5 races · 5 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Individual Open · Women1:37:50324/577Beat 44%
↑ 177 days after Mechelen 2026 1:51 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:25 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:34 slower for everyone: 1:51 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:34 slower This athlete2:25 slower -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Women1:35:25 PB404/776Beat 48%
↑ 355 days after Belgium 2025 1:14 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:01 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:47 faster for everyone, so 1:14 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:47 faster This athlete4:01 faster -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Women1:39:26493/765Beat 36%
↑ 177 days after Amsterdam 2024 0:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:07 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:12 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:12 faster This athlete2:07 faster -
Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Women1:21:24 PB82/272Beat 70%
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Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Individual Open · Women1:41:33455/678Beat 33%