Progress against the field
From Johannesburg I 2025 to Cape Town 2025, the field gained 2:30 on Saadia Makda.
Over the same races everyone got 6:19 quicker, so 3:49 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 4 events
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Istanbul 113 Feb 2026Doubles Open · Women1:18:22 PB34/150Beat 77%
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Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Women1:23:1957/714Beat 92%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025, with Firdous Variava 0:27 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:27 behind the field: 2:11 slower on the clock, against 1:44 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:44 slower This pair2:11 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Women1:40:37 PB204/431Beat 53%
↑ 140 days after Johannesburg I 2025 2:30 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:49 faster on the clock, yet the race was 6:19 faster for everyone, so 2:30 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:19 faster This athlete3:49 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Women1:21:08121/723Beat 83%
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Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Women1:44:26163/382Beat 57%