Progress against the field
Between Amsterdam 2024 and Belgium 2025, Gillian Smolders lost 4:14 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:27 quicker, so 0:13 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Amsterdam 2024 → Rotterdam 2025: 6:30 in 140 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:54 PB251/506Beat 50%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Women1:32:10345/765Beat 55%
↑ 37 days after Rotterdam 2025 10:44 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:44 behind the field: 9:06 slower on the clock, against 1:38 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:38 faster This athlete9:06 slower -
Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Women1:23:04 PB95/506Beat 81%
↑ 140 days after Amsterdam 2024 6:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:19 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:49 faster for everyone, so 6:30 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 faster This athlete9:19 faster -
Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Individual Open · Women1:32:23169/408Beat 59%