Progress against the field
From Madrid 2025 to Berlin 2026, the field gained 4:23 on Steffen Vollmerding.
The clock says 1:32 faster, but the races themselves got 5:55 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Madrid 2025 → Turin 2026: 3:17 on the field in 64 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
3 races · 3 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:28:57537/993Beat 46%
↑ 112 days after Turin 2026 7:40 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:40 behind the field: 5:49 slower on the clock, against 1:51 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 faster This athlete5:49 slower -
Turin30 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:23:08 PB272/588Beat 54%
↑ 64 days after Madrid 2025 3:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:04 faster for everyone, so 3:17 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:04 faster This athlete7:21 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:30:29841/1312Beat 36%