Progress against the field
Thomas Heider has dropped 4:37 behind the field from Hamburg 2024 to Cologne 2025.
The clock says 1:26 slower, but the races themselves got 3:11 quicker for everyone.
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 · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
22 races · 21 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:4254/586Beat 91%
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Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:28563/825Beat 32%
↑ 63 days after Cologne 2026, with Christiane Heider 1:54 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:48 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:54 slower for everyone: 1:54 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:54 slower This pair2:48 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:03:4034/884Beat 96%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · MenDNF—
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:5532/941Beat 97%
↑ 210 days after Berlin 2025, with Sven Bleh 1:03 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:42 slower on the clock, but the race was 1:45 slower for everyone, so this was 1:03 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:45 slower This pair0:42 slower -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:14:34 PB133/340Beat 61%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:5256/821Beat 93%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · MenDNF—
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:13 PB141/1325Beat 89%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:03:5818/494Beat 96%
↑ 159 days after Hamburg 2024 4:37 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:26 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:11 faster for everyone: 4:37 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:11 faster This athlete1:26 slower -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:5656/898Beat 94%
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Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Individual Pro · MenDNF—
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Vienna22 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:00:30 PB27/638Beat 96%
↑ 147 days after Stuttgart 2024, with Christiane Heider 0:45 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:45 better than the field: 4:47 faster on the clock, against 4:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:02 faster This pair4:47 faster -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:02:32 PB17/1248Beat 99%
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Milan19 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:07:0851/1370Beat 96%
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Stuttgart28 Sep 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:1730/390Beat 92%
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Karlsruhe16 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:05:1822/774Beat 97%
↑ 98 days after Frankfurt 2023 0:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:09 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:21 faster for everyone, so 0:48 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:21 faster This athlete4:09 faster -
Vienna - European Championship9 Feb 2024Individual Open · MenDNF—
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Frankfurt9 Dec 2023Individual Open · Men1:09:2785/843Beat 90%
↑ 56 days after München 2023 3:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:18 better than the field: 7:52 faster on the clock, against 4:34 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:34 faster This athlete7:52 faster -
München14 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:17:1994/459Beat 80%
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BudapestDate unknownDoubles Open · Mixed1:04:4953/425Beat 88%
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World Championships NiceDate unknownIndividual Pro · Men1:14:36442/830Beat 47%