Progress against the field
From Hamburg 2024 to Heerenveen 2025, Jurgen Van Den Berg got 6:29 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:10 quicker, so 9:39 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Hamburg 2024 → Rotterdam 2025: 7:00 in 117 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 4 events
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:45 PB165/962Beat 83%
↑ 392 days after Rotterdam 2025, with Marieke Machielse 4:51 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:27 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:36 faster for everyone, so 4:51 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →5:36 faster This pair10:27 faster -
Heerenveen9 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:11 PB378/1217Beat 69%
↑ 71 days after Rotterdam 2025 0:31 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:58 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:29 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:31 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:29 faster This athlete1:58 faster -
Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:12132/353Beat 63%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:09434/1283Beat 66%
↑ 117 days after Hamburg 2024 7:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:00 better than the field: 7:41 faster on the clock, against 0:41 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:41 faster This athlete7:41 faster -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:28:50735/1248Beat 41%