Progress against the field
Between Mechelen 2026 and Berlin 2026, Manuel Kumar lost 3:54 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:35 slower, so 5:29 slower on the clock looks worse 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
12 races · 11 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:01:48 PB9/577Beat 98%
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Relay · Men59:035/24Beat 79%
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:0516/306Beat 95%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:19 PB45/816Beat 95%
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:15:28168/686Beat 76%
↑ 57 days after Mechelen 2026 3:54 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:54 behind the field: 5:29 slower on the clock, against 1:35 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:35 slower This athlete5:29 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:2362/362Beat 83%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:59177/1363Beat 87%
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EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:01 PB375/958Beat 61%
↑ 62 days after Amsterdam 2026 0:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 0:26 faster on the clock, against 0:31 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:31 faster This athlete0:26 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:2770/608Beat 89%
↑ 82 days after Stuttgart 2025 0:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:10 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:22 faster for everyone, so 0:48 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:22 faster This athlete5:10 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:37212/1171Beat 82%
↑ 29 days after Hamburg 2025 3:38 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:41 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:57 faster for everyone: 3:38 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:57 faster This athlete2:41 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:5659/409Beat 86%
↑ 565 days after Karlsruhe 2024 5:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:08 behind the field: 1:24 slower on the clock, against 3:44 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete1:24 slower -
Karlsruhe16 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:10:3275/774Beat 90%