Progress against the field
Between Amsterdam 2022 and Maastricht 2024, Alain Gossens and Josien Tijssens lost 1:53 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:43 quicker, so 2:50 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 364 days between Maastricht European Championships 2023 and Maastricht 2024, cost 2:31 on the field.
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 Doubles Open · Mixed, with Josien Tijssens, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:26 PB630/1337Beat 53%
↑ 237 days after Belgium 2025 1:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:44 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:23 faster for everyone, so 1:21 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:23 faster This athlete1:44 faster -
Valencia17 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:23:54 PB334/555Beat 40%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:29:10954/1638Beat 42%
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Maastricht20 Jan 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:43165/230Beat 28%
↑ 364 days after Maastricht European Championships 2023, with Josien Tijssens 2:31 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:37 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:54 faster for everyone: 2:31 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:54 faster This pair0:37 slower -
Maastricht European Championships21 Jan 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:06104/147Beat 29%
↑ 91 days after Amsterdam 2022, with Josien Tijssens 0:38 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:38 better than the field: 3:27 faster on the clock, against 2:49 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 faster This pair3:27 faster -
Amsterdam22 Oct 2022Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:33131/170Beat 23%