Progress against the field
Between Cologne 2025 and Berlin 2026, Michelle Haertel lost 19:00 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:03 quicker, so 13:57 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Cologne 2025 → Hamburg 2025: 10:53 in 175 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
9 races · 9 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Women1:56:27 PB252/267Beat 6%
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Women1:59:3094/99Beat 5%
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Women2:15:08844/889Beat 5%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2026 34:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
34:24 behind the field: 35:31 slower on the clock, against 1:07 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:07 slower This athlete35:31 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:39:37 PB113/189Beat 40%
↑ 125 days after Frankfurt 2025 6:28 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:53 faster for everyone, so 6:28 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:53 faster This athlete9:21 faster -
Vienna6 Feb 2026Doubles Open · Women1:33:25 PB836/1157Beat 28%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Women1:48:58867/1071Beat 19%
↑ 71 days after Hamburg 2025 1:57 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:51 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:06 faster for everyone: 1:57 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:06 faster This athlete1:51 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:40:131680/1887Beat 11%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:47:07547/668Beat 18%
↑ 175 days after Cologne 2025 10:53 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:04 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:11 faster for everyone, so 10:53 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:11 faster This athlete14:04 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Women2:01:11165/178Beat 7%