Progress against the field
Mats Thiele has dropped 7:31 behind the field from Hamburg 2024 to Berlin 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 3:14 quicker, so 4:17 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 334 days between Hamburg 2024 and Hamburg 2025, still ended 5:28 ahead of 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:26:31475/993Beat 52%
↑ 232 days after Hamburg 2025 12:59 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:59 behind the field: 10:20 slower on the clock, against 2:39 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:39 faster This athlete10:20 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:11 PB297/1486Beat 80%
↑ 334 days after Hamburg 2024 5:28 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:03 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:35 faster for everyone, so 5:28 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:35 faster This athlete6:03 faster -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:22:14515/1248Beat 59%