Progress against the field
Between Cologne 2025 and Berlin 2026, Markus Maier pulled 2:37 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:18 quicker, so 6:55 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Cologne 2025 → Hamburg 2025: 2:37 on the field in 175 days.
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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:23:13 PB393/993Beat 60%
↑ 232 days after Hamburg 2025 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 2:39 faster on the clock, against 2:39 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:39 faster This athlete2:39 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:52629/1486Beat 58%
↑ 175 days after Cologne 2025 2:37 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:37 better than the field: 4:16 faster on the clock, against 1:39 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This athlete4:16 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:30:08741/1182Beat 37%
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Karlsruhe22 Feb 2020Doubles Open · Men1:04:54 PB12/157Beat 92%