Progress against the field
Between Vienna 2025 and Berlin 2026, Michael Sterl pulled 7:18 ahead of the field.
The clock says 9:01 faster, but the races themselves got 1:43 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 299 days between Vienna 2025 and Stockholm 2025, still ended 12:15 ahead of the field.
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
7 races · 7 events
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Geneva9 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:32335/934Beat 64%
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Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:44705/825Beat 15%
↑ 75 days after Bologna 2026, with Edda Sterl-Klemm 0:31 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:48 slower on the clock, but the race was 1:19 slower for everyone, so this was 0:31 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:19 slower This pair0:48 slower -
Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:32:56620/993Beat 38%
↑ 105 days after Vienna 2026 2:19 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:25 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:06 faster for everyone, so 2:19 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:06 faster This athlete4:25 faster -
Bologna4 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:56 PB359/860Beat 58%
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Vienna6 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:37:21998/1311Beat 24%
↑ 50 days after Stockholm 2025 7:16 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:48 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:28 faster for everyone: 7:16 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:28 faster This athlete5:48 slower -
Stockholm18 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:31:33 PB883/1315Beat 33%
↑ 299 days after Vienna 2025 12:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 1:51 slower for everyone and the clock still says 10:24 faster: 12:15 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 slower This athlete10:24 faster -
Vienna22 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:41:571244/1356Beat 8%