Progress against the field
Ralf Gärtner has dropped 2:36 behind the field from Hamburg 2024 to Stuttgart 2025.
The clock says 1:15 slower, but the races themselves got 1:21 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 Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
11 races · 11 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men56:018/255Beat 97%
↑ 258 days after St. Gallen 2026, with Andreas Dreitz 2:50 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:50 behind the field: 0:45 slower on the clock, against 2:05 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:05 faster This pair0:45 slower -
Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Pro · Men55:0592/704Beat 87%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men53:59 PB4/526Beat 99%
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St. Gallen16 Jan 2026Doubles Pro · Men55:169/256Beat 97%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Pro · MenDNF—
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Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:07:3267/340Beat 80%
↑ 168 days after Berlin 2025 2:31 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:29 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:58 slower for everyone: 2:31 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:58 slower This athlete4:29 slower -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Pro · Men1:03:03 PB45/196Beat 77%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2025 0:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:17 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:10 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:10 faster This athlete3:17 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Pro · Men1:06:2011/96Beat 89%
↑ 159 days after Hamburg 2024 0:12 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:12 behind the field: 0:03 slower on the clock, against 0:09 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:09 faster This athlete0:03 slower -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Individual Pro · Men1:06:1721/180Beat 88%
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Frankfurt9 Dec 2023Individual Pro · Men1:06:1223/173Beat 87%
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St. GallenDate unknownIndividual Pro · Men1:06:1519/191Beat 90%