Progress against the field
Natalia Varsa-Gaga has dropped 2:50 behind the field from Warsaw 2026 to Oslo 2026.
The clock says 5:26 slower, but the races themselves got 2:36 slower 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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 7 events
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Oslo26 Sep 2026Individual Open · Women1:21:03100/576Beat 83%
↑ 140 days after Helsinki 2026 2:46 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:46 behind the field: 5:37 slower on the clock, against 2:51 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:51 slower This athlete5:37 slower -
Riga30 May 2026Relay · Women1:05:333/15Beat 80%
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Riga30 May 2026Individual Pro · Women1:25:05 PB71/109Beat 35%
↑ 163 days after Stockholm 2025 1:29 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:38 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:09 faster for everyone, so 1:29 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:09 faster This athlete3:38 faster -
Helsinki9 May 2026Individual Open · Women1:15:26 PB42/579Beat 93%
↑ 23 days after Warsaw 2026 0:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:11 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:15 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:15 faster This athlete0:11 faster -
Warsaw16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:15:3750/662Beat 92%
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Stockholm18 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Women1:28:43112/150Beat 25%
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Oslo26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Women1:25:31135/450Beat 70%
↑ 133 days after Berlin 2025 3:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:43 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:34 slower for everyone: 3:09 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:34 slower This athlete4:43 slower -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:20:48162/590Beat 73%