Progress against the field
Between Cologne 2025 and St. Gallen 2026, Sebastian Schmid kept pace with the field.
The clock says 6:08 faster, but the races themselves got 6:01 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 196 days between Rimini 2025 and Frankfurt 2025, still ended 1:04 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
9 races · 8 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:04:38 PB14/215Beat 94%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:09:32 PB183/396Beat 54%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Relay · Men59:1310/47Beat 79%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:25212/884Beat 76%
↑ 167 days after Stuttgart 2025, with Daniela Westermayer 0:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 2:42 faster on the clock, against 2:47 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:47 faster This pair2:42 faster -
St. Gallen16 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:16:29 PB201/1068Beat 81%
↑ 35 days after Frankfurt 2025 2:05 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:49 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:44 faster for everyone, so 2:05 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:44 faster This athlete2:49 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:18542/1883Beat 71%
↑ 196 days after Rimini 2025 1:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:04 better than the field: 4:10 faster on the clock, against 3:06 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:06 faster This athlete4:10 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:07312/855Beat 64%
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Rimini30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:28284/596Beat 52%
↑ 50 days after Cologne 2025 3:02 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:02 behind the field: 0:51 slower on the clock, against 2:11 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:11 faster This athlete0:51 slower -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:37221/494Beat 55%