Progress against the field
Between Geneva 2025 and Gent 2025, William Bereaud lost 1:09 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:18 quicker, so 5:09 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Geneva 2025 → Paris 2025: 24:30 in 11 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
12 races · 10 events
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Turin30 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:37:27458/588Beat 22%
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Turin30 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:52:42261/268Beat 3%
↑ 111 days after Geneva 2025 5:12 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:12 behind the field: 3:33 slower on the clock, against 1:39 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This athlete3:33 slower -
Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:45:131271/1428Beat 11%
↑ 22 days after Bordeaux 2025 24:45 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
22:35 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:10 faster for everyone: 24:45 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:10 faster This athlete22:35 slower -
Bordeaux20 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:38 PB713/1442Beat 51%
↑ 29 days after Paris 2025 0:54 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:04 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:58 faster for everyone, so 0:54 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:58 faster This athlete4:04 faster -
Paris22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:26:42683/1347Beat 49%
↑ 11 days after Geneva 2025 24:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 0:50 slower for everyone and the clock still says 23:40 faster: 24:30 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:50 slower This athlete23:40 faster -
Geneva11 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:50:221296/1386Beat 7%
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Geneva11 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:49:09 PB243/257Beat 5%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men2:28:181338/1352Beat 1%
↑ 133 days after Heerenveen 2025 37:57 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
39:39 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:42 slower for everyone: 37:57 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 slower This athlete39:39 slower -
Heerenveen9 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:48:39286/325Beat 12%
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Paris 118 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:47:01618/659Beat 6%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Pro · Men1:52:2455/62Beat 11%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:19:08 PB627/898Beat 30%