Progress against the field
Ruth Kerßenfischer has dropped 26:36 behind the field from Hamburg 2025 to Berlin 2026.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 26:30 slower on the clock is close to the whole story.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 196 days between Hamburg 2025 and Cologne 2026, cost 6:38 on the field.
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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Women2:24:51866/889Beat 3%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2026 19:58 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
19:58 behind the field: 21:05 slower on the clock, against 1:07 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:07 slower This athlete21:05 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women2:03:46545/583Beat 7%
↑ 196 days after Hamburg 2025 6:38 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:38 behind the field: 5:25 slower on the clock, against 1:13 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:13 faster This athlete5:25 slower -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:32:24 PB984/1496Beat 34%
↑ 42 days after Stuttgart 2025, with Santhi Metz 2:44 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:18 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:34 faster for everyone, so 2:44 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:34 faster This pair5:18 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women1:37:42771/908Beat 15%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:58:21 PB625/668Beat 6%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Women1:34:13248/295Beat 16%