Progress against the field
Michael Zepp has dropped 14:46 behind the field from Karlsruhe 2025 to Cologne 2026.
The clock says 4:32 slower, but the races themselves got 10:14 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Stuttgart 2025 → Vienna 2026: 9:00 in 98 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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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · MenDNF—
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:46:34780/924Beat 16%
↑ 69 days after Vienna 2026 1:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:24 behind the field: 0:19 slower on the clock, against 1:05 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:05 faster This athlete0:19 slower -
Vienna6 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:46:151161/1311Beat 11%
↑ 98 days after Stuttgart 2025 9:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:11 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:11 faster for everyone, so 9:00 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:11 faster This athlete12:11 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:58:261120/1171Beat 4%
↑ 29 days after Hamburg 2025 15:51 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:54 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:57 faster for everyone: 15:51 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:57 faster This athlete14:54 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:43:321199/1486Beat 19%
↑ 175 days after Cologne 2025 0:27 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:12 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:39 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:27 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This athlete1:12 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:44:441042/1182Beat 12%
↑ 40 days after Karlsruhe 2025 6:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:04 behind the field: 2:42 slower on the clock, against 3:22 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:22 faster This athlete2:42 slower -
Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:42:02 PB952/1208Beat 21%