Progress against the field
From Maastricht 2025 to Mechelen 2026, the field gained 0:26 on Olivier Delmarche and Laurens Flak.
Over the same races everyone got 6:48 quicker, so 6:22 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Gent 2025 → Mechelen 2026: 2:27 on the field in 104 days.
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 2026Doubles Open · Men1:05:58 PB80/402Beat 80%
↑ 104 days after Gent 2025, with Laurens Flak 2:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:27 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:00 faster for everyone, so 2:27 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:00 faster This pair5:27 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:11:25471/1164Beat 60%
↑ 84 days after Maastricht 2025, with Laurens Flak 2:53 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:55 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:48 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:53 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:48 faster This pair0:55 faster -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:12:20351/821Beat 57%