Progress against the field
From Amsterdam 2023 to Gent 2025, Ayden Van Steenlandt got 5:49 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 11:33 quicker, so 17:22 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Amsterdam 2023 → Rotterdam 2024: 6:23 on the field in 154 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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Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:10 PB1032/1428Beat 28%
↑ 288 days after Rotterdam 2025 0:54 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:35 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:29 faster for everyone, so 0:54 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:29 faster This athlete1:35 faster -
Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:45435/600Beat 28%
↑ 327 days after Rotterdam 2024 0:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:20 better than the field: 6:54 faster on the clock, against 6:34 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →6:34 faster This athlete6:54 faster -
Rotterdam6 Apr 2024Individual Open · Men1:41:391051/1380Beat 24%
↑ 154 days after Amsterdam 2023 6:23 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:53 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:30 faster for everyone, so 6:23 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:30 faster This athlete8:53 faster -
Amsterdam4 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:50:32961/1079Beat 11%