Progress against the field
From Rotterdam 2025 to Heerenveen 2025, the field gained 1:42 on Nicholas Smeele.
Over the same races everyone got 2:29 quicker, so 0:47 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 · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 5 events
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:23:10 PB168/243Beat 31%
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:11:47119/461Beat 74%
↑ 274 days after Rotterdam 2025, with Justin Tromp 2:46 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:08 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:38 faster for everyone: 2:46 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:38 faster This pair1:08 slower -
Heerenveen9 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:17 PB289/1217Beat 76%
↑ 71 days after Rotterdam 2025 1:42 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:47 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:29 faster for everyone, so 1:42 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:29 faster This athlete0:47 faster -
Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:39 PB208/733Beat 72%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:17:04128/600Beat 79%
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Nice12 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:23:57304/674Beat 55%