Progress against the field
Between Cologne 2025 and Berlin 2026, Nikolas Freitag pulled 2:20 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:40 quicker, so 6:00 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 245 days between Maastricht 2025 and Berlin 2026, cost 1:46 on 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
9 races · 8 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:50240/953Beat 75%
↑ 371 days after Berlin 2025, with Ida Vaßen 2:02 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:37 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:35 slower for everyone: 2:02 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:35 slower This pair4:37 slower -
Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:19:41 PB301/993Beat 70%
↑ 245 days after Maastricht 2025 1:46 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:32 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 4:18 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:46 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:18 faster This athlete2:32 faster -
Vienna6 Feb 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:17:09 PB230/355Beat 35%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:13402/1352Beat 70%
↑ 162 days after Cologne 2025 4:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:28 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:38 slower for everyone: 4:06 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:38 slower This athlete3:28 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:13 PB220/892Beat 75%
↑ 153 days after Frankfurt 2024, with Ida Vaßen 6:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:24 better than the field: 11:18 faster on the clock, against 4:54 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:54 faster This pair11:18 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:4177/164Beat 53%
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Vienna22 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:29 PB316/655Beat 52%
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Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:31436/861Beat 49%
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Berlin20 Nov 2021Individual Open · Men1:31:4983/130Beat 36%