Progress against the field
Stephan Kesten has dropped 3:03 behind the field from Berlin 2025 to Berlin 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 2:44 slower, so 5:47 slower on the clock looks worse than it was.
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
8 races · 7 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:42 PB30/219Beat 86%
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:28:34525/993Beat 47%
↑ 371 days after Berlin 2025 3:03 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:03 behind the field: 5:47 slower on the clock, against 2:44 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:44 slower This athlete5:47 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:46 PB663/884Beat 25%
↑ 196 days after Hamburg 2025, with Franziska Kesten 2:26 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:43 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:09 faster for everyone, so 2:26 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:09 faster This pair0:43 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:27:55766/935Beat 18%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:30:29255/339Beat 25%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:47 PB479/748Beat 36%
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Barcelona25 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:34:36387/445Beat 13%
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Stuttgart28 Sep 2024Individual Pro · Men1:27:53 PB108/146Beat 26%