Progress against the field
Between Cologne 2025 and Berlin 2026, Markus Lahrkamp pulled 7:27 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:18 quicker, so 11:45 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 232 days between Hamburg 2025 and Berlin 2026, still ended 9:04 ahead of 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 · Men, 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 · Men1:17:42 PB192/704Beat 73%
↑ 232 days after Hamburg 2025 9:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:43 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:39 faster for everyone, so 9:04 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:39 faster This athlete11:43 faster -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:33218/884Beat 75%
↑ 85 days after Amsterdam 2026, with Sabrina Kock 0:13 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:04 slower on the clock, but the race was 1:17 slower for everyone, so this was 0:13 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:17 slower This pair1:04 slower -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:29 PB303/1206Beat 75%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:41:06 PB277/305Beat 9%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:29:25778/1486Beat 48%
↑ 175 days after Cologne 2025 1:37 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:02 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:39 faster for everyone, so 1:37 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This athlete0:02 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:29:27717/1182Beat 39%