His role isn't to be a deku or bakugo, is what I'm saying. He won't have batman level anything cuz 1, he's 16 and 2 hasn't spent his whole life training plus learning from the league of shadows.
Wait why does he has his knifes? No equipment allowed unless your support course or like aoyama where you need to keep you safe. He could of gotten a makeshift knife from the destroyed robots or hell some rocks, the race would have been closer aswell.