Progress against the field
From Belgium 2025 to Mechelen 2026, the field gained 4:57 on Tomas Sanchez Posada and Arnaud Van Melkebeke.
Over the same races everyone got 5:05 quicker, so 0:08 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
188 days between Maastricht 2025 and Mechelen 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 3:37 behind 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 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:4960/867Beat 93%
↑ 188 days after Maastricht 2025, with Arnaud Van Melkebeke 3:37 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:37 behind the field: 0:23 slower on the clock, against 3:14 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:14 faster This pair0:23 slower -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:26 PB39/821Beat 95%
↑ 167 days after Belgium 2025, with Arnaud Van Melkebeke 1:20 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:31 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:51 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:20 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 faster This pair0:31 faster -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:5757/898Beat 94%