Progress against the field
Elsebeth Lea Petersen has gained 6:08 on the field from Stockholm 2025 to Copenhagen 2026.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 6:37 faster on the clock is close to the whole story.
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 Individual Open · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Istanbul1 Aug 2026Individual Pro · Women1:46:56 PB66/71Beat 7%
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Copenhagen13 Mar 2026Individual Open · Women1:29:1182/208Beat 61%
↑ 85 days after Stockholm 2025 6:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:37 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:29 faster for everyone, so 6:08 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:29 faster This athlete6:37 faster -
Stockholm18 Dec 2025Individual Open · Women1:35:48141/241Beat 42%
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Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Women1:36:51335/520Beat 36%
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Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Individual Open · Women1:25:18 PB290/657Beat 56%
↑ 97 days after Stockholm 2024 1:12 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:30 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 5:42 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:12 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:42 faster This athlete4:30 faster -
Stockholm7 Dec 2024Individual Open · Women1:29:48151/348Beat 57%
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Malmö30 Sep 2023Individual Open · Women1:41:4275/97Beat 23%