Progress against the field
Merlin Moelter has dropped 13:13 behind the field from Cologne 2026 to Hamburg 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 2:57 quicker, so 10:16 slower on the clock looks better 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
5 races · 5 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:54:37498/579Beat 14%
↑ 159 days after Berlin 2026 4:01 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:01 behind the field: 1:09 slower on the clock, against 2:52 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:52 faster This athlete1:09 slower -
Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:53:28897/993Beat 10%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2026 9:12 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:12 behind the field: 9:07 slower on the clock, against 0:05 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:05 faster This athlete9:07 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:44:21 PB757/924Beat 18%
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Copenhagen13 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:52:16824/900Beat 8%
↑ 162 days after Hamburg 2025 19:05 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
22:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:16 faster for everyone, so 19:05 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:16 faster This athlete22:21 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men2:14:371456/1486Beat 2%