Progress against the field
From Hamburg 2025 to Berlin 2026, the field gained 3:33 on Christoph Hacker.
Over the same races everyone got 3:56 quicker, so 0:23 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Stuttgart 2025 → Cologne 2026: 2:03 on the field in 167 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
4 races · 4 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:18:20322/1097Beat 71%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2026 4:34 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:29 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:05 faster for everyone: 4:34 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:05 faster This athlete4:29 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:51 PB142/924Beat 85%
↑ 167 days after Stuttgart 2025 2:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:03 better than the field: 4:57 faster on the clock, against 2:54 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:54 faster This athlete4:57 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:48350/1171Beat 70%
↑ 29 days after Hamburg 2025 1:02 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:05 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:57 faster for everyone: 1:02 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:57 faster This athlete0:05 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:43374/1486Beat 75%