The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Mathéo Mertens & Dimitri Bankovic finished 407th of 593 men's teams in the Doubles Open division at Mechelen 2026, in 1:18:18.
A station race more than a running one: 63% of the field beaten on the stations, against 22% on the runs. Nowhere gained more than the burpee broad jumps: 0:36 on the median. The race faded late: the second half went 1:24 worse against the middle of the field than the first.
This was a quick course. Against their other races this season, the people who raced Mechelen gained about 1:49.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:34Running 1 4:36v median +0:44
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Block 02 7:04Running 2 5:31v median +0:49
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Block 03 8:31Running 3 5:37v median +0:40
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Block 04 8:07Running 4 5:23v median +0:22
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Block 05 10:04Running 5 5:33v median +0:20
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Block 06 7:17Running 6 5:43v median +0:37
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Block 07 8:33Running 7 5:34v median +0:33
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Block 08 11:59Running 8 6:58v median +1:36
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 8:16
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 591
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 591 men's teams who finished.