Progress against the field
From Cape Town 2024 to Cape Town 2025, Matthew Botha got 3:42 faster than the field.
The clock says 12:20 faster, but the races themselves got 8:38 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Johannesburg I 2025 → Cape Town 2025: 3:42 on the field 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
6 races · 4 events
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Men1:33:11388/477Beat 19%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:40 PB185/781Beat 76%
↑ 140 days after Johannesburg I 2025 3:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:42 better than the field: 14:31 faster on the clock, against 10:49 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →10:49 faster This athlete14:31 faster -
Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:27:54 PB189/325Beat 42%
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Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:37:11187/422Beat 56%
↑ 161 days after Cape Town 2024 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:11 slower on the clock, and the race was 2:11 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:11 slower This athlete2:11 slower -
Cape Town21 Sep 2024Individual Open · Men1:35:00170/247Beat 31%
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MelbourneDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:42:211299/1529Beat 15%