Progress against the field
From Amsterdam 2023 to Belgium 2025, Max Van Den Heuvel got 12:07 faster than the field.
The clock says 16:00 faster, but the races themselves got 3:53 quicker for everyone.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men57:31 PB15/994Beat 99%
↑ 40 days after Gent 2025, with Daan Van De Ven 0:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:33 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:42 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:42 faster This pair2:33 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:0414/280Beat 95%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:18 PB184/1638Beat 89%
↑ 518 days after Amsterdam 2023 12:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:07 better than the field: 16:00 faster on the clock, against 3:53 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:53 faster This athlete16:00 faster -
Amsterdam4 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:26:18444/1079Beat 59%