Progress against the field
From Frankfurt 2025 to Berlin 2026, the field gained 2:23 on Sebastian E. Merget.
The clock says 0:21 faster, but the races themselves got 2:44 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
5 races · 4 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:27 PB44/898Beat 95%
↑ 195 days after Cologne 2026, with Benjamin Oldhafer 1:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:49 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:23 faster for everyone, so 1:26 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:23 faster This pair2:49 faster -
Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:33 PB40/577Beat 93%
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:19:34 PB297/993Beat 70%
↑ 161 days after Frankfurt 2025 2:23 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:21 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:44 faster for everyone, so 2:23 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:44 faster This athlete0:21 faster -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:04:1653/490Beat 89%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:55589/1883Beat 69%