Progress against the field
Between Johannesburg I 2025 and Johannesburg 2025, Branden du Plessis kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:09 quicker, so 4:11 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.
Every race
2 races · 2 events
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Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:32:32 PB178/652Beat 73%
↑ 273 days after Johannesburg I 2025 0:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:11 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:09 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →4:09 faster This athlete4:11 faster -
Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:36:43180/422Beat 57%