Progress against the field
Between Cologne 2025 and Hamburg 2026, Rainer Petzina lost 8:26 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:53 quicker, so 0:33 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Frankfurt 2025 → EMEA London Olympia 2026: 3:35 in 102 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
7 races · 7 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:28:49592/1103Beat 46%
↑ 159 days after Berlin 2026 4:37 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:37 behind the field: 1:45 slower on the clock, against 2:52 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:52 faster This athlete1:45 slower -
Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:27:04584/1097Beat 47%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2026 1:28 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:28 better than the field: 1:33 faster on the clock, against 0:05 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:05 faster This athlete1:33 faster -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:28:37481/924Beat 48%
↑ 23 days after EMEA London Olympia 2026 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:21 slower on the clock, and the race was 2:21 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:21 slower This athlete2:21 slower -
EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:26:16776/958Beat 19%
↑ 102 days after Frankfurt 2025 3:35 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:06 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:31 faster for everyone, so 3:35 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 faster This athlete7:06 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:221271/1883Beat 33%
↑ 71 days after Hamburg 2025 9:35 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:28 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:07 faster for everyone: 9:35 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:07 faster This athlete7:28 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:54 PB206/409Beat 50%
↑ 175 days after Cologne 2025 0:43 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:22 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:39 faster for everyone, so 0:43 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This athlete2:22 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:16671/1182Beat 43%