Progress against the field
Between Utrecht 2025 and Rome 2026, Jens Thijs and Melissa Fontyn kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:13 quicker, so 4:13 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Rome23 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:15:28296/1051Beat 72%
↑ 181 days after Mechelen 2026, with Melissa Fontyn 0:03 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:46 slower on the clock, and the race was 0:43 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:43 slower This pair0:46 slower -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:42 PB310/962Beat 68%
↑ 118 days after Utrecht 2025, with Melissa Fontyn 0:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:59 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:56 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →4:56 faster This pair4:59 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Relay · Mixed1:14:1213/49Beat 74%
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:41125/381Beat 67%