Progress against the field
Between Stuttgart 2023 and Berlin 2025, Philipp Birnstingl lost 2:29 to the field.
The clock says 11:48 faster, but the races themselves got 14:17 quicker for everyone.
309 days between Vienna - European Championship 2024 and Frankfurt 2024 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 2:51 better than 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
16 races · 16 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:09:41230/475Beat 52%
↑ 195 days after Cologne 2026, with Claudio Ciulla 1:54 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:30 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:24 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:54 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:24 faster This pair0:30 faster -
Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:11:04616/704Beat 13%
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Shanghai16 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:17185/694Beat 73%
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Helsinki9 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:06:00 PB96/168Beat 43%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:10:11215/526Beat 59%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:28 PB231/1469Beat 84%
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Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:27:41 PB234/340Beat 31%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:47 PB541/1851Beat 71%
↑ 153 days after Frankfurt 2024 4:48 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:01 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 5:49 faster for everyone, which leaves this 4:48 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:49 faster This athlete1:01 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:03:07 PB39/461Beat 92%
↑ 159 days after Hamburg 2024, with Claudio Ciulla 0:16 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:09 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:25 faster for everyone, so 0:16 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:25 faster This pair1:09 faster -
Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men1:14:48333/1480Beat 78%
↑ 309 days after Vienna - European Championship 2024 2:51 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:51 better than the field: 6:43 faster on the clock, against 3:52 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:52 faster This athlete6:43 faster -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:04:1675/700Beat 89%
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Vienna - European Championship9 Feb 2024Individual Open · Men1:21:31320/698Beat 54%
↑ 62 days after Frankfurt 2023 0:32 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:45 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:13 slower for everyone: 0:32 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:13 slower This athlete0:45 slower -
Frankfurt9 Dec 2023Individual Open · Men1:20:46296/843Beat 65%
↑ 56 days after München 2023 4:28 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:02 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:34 faster for everyone, so 4:28 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:34 faster This athlete9:02 faster -
Hamburg18 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Men1:13:38144/348Beat 59%
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München14 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:29:48252/459Beat 45%
↑ 252 days after Stuttgart 2023 4:28 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:28 behind the field: 4:13 slower on the clock, against 0:15 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:15 faster This athlete4:13 slower -
Stuttgart4 Feb 2023Individual Open · Men1:25:35135/267Beat 49%