Progress against the field
Between Frankfurt 2024 and Berlin 2026, Marco Schäfer lost 26:01 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 9:45 quicker, so 16:16 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Cologne 2025 → Berlin 2025: 10:24 in 36 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
7 races · 7 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men2:20:30974/993Beat 2%
↑ 161 days after Frankfurt 2025 22:39 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
19:55 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:44 faster for everyone: 22:39 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:44 faster This athlete19:55 slower -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men2:00:351802/1883Beat 4%
↑ 71 days after Hamburg 2025 2:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:02 better than the field: 4:09 faster on the clock, against 2:07 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:07 faster This athlete4:09 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men2:04:44399/409Beat 2%
↑ 139 days after Berlin 2025 13:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
13:41 behind the field: 15:19 slower on the clock, against 1:38 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:38 slower This athlete15:19 slower -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:49:25 PB1760/1851Beat 5%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2025 10:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:24 better than the field: 13:58 faster on the clock, against 3:34 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:34 faster This athlete13:58 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men2:03:231140/1182Beat 4%
↑ 117 days after Frankfurt 2024 2:07 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:51 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:58 faster for everyone, so 2:07 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:58 faster This athlete0:51 faster -
Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men2:04:141447/1480Beat 2%
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Karlsruhe16 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men1:18:51 PB165/306Beat 46%