Progress against the field
Between Rotterdam 2024 and Mechelen 2026, Cindy Nieman and Paula Van Den Berg-Smitsman lost 2:37 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 10:44 quicker, so 8:07 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 531 days between Rotterdam 2024 and Maastricht 2025, cost 3:08 on 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Women, with Paula Van Den Berg-Smitsman, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 9 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Women1:56:52685/708Beat 3%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:48:41963/1017Beat 5%
↑ 118 days after Utrecht 2025, with Paula Van Den Berg-Smitsman 0:41 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:41 better than the field: 4:11 faster on the clock, against 3:30 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:30 faster This pair4:11 faster -
Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Women1:52:52801/828Beat 3%
↑ 70 days after Maastricht 2025, with Paula Van Den Berg-Smitsman 0:10 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:23 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:33 faster for everyone, so 0:10 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:33 faster This pair1:23 faster -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Women1:54:15721/739Beat 2%
↑ 531 days after Rotterdam 2024, with Paula Van Den Berg-Smitsman 3:08 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:33 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:41 faster for everyone, so 3:08 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:41 faster This pair2:33 faster -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Women1:47:51665/713Beat 7%
↑ 37 days after Rotterdam 2025, with Paula van den Berg 0:31 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:20 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:11 faster for everyone: 0:31 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:11 faster This pair0:20 slower -
Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Women1:47:31 PB601/633Beat 5%
↑ 140 days after Amsterdam 2024, with Paula van den Berg 0:33 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:11 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:38 faster for everyone, so 0:33 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:38 faster This pair4:11 faster -
Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Women1:51:42635/657Beat 3%
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Rotterdam6 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Women1:56:48544/564Beat 4%
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Maastricht20 Jan 2024Relay · Women1:27:5015/22Beat 32%