Progress against the field
Meik Rothe has dropped 2:26 behind the field from Stuttgart 2025 to Bologna 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 5:31 quicker, so 3:05 faster on the clock looks better 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
8 races · 8 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:17:52426/898Beat 53%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:28:14 PB378/396Beat 5%
↑ 161 days after Frankfurt 2025, with Andreas Petermann 3:35 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:04 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:29 faster for everyone, so 3:35 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:29 faster This pair6:04 faster -
Bologna4 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:17:30 PB284/799Beat 65%
↑ 155 days after Stuttgart 2025 2:26 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:05 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:31 faster for everyone, so 2:26 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:31 faster This athlete3:05 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:34:18455/474Beat 4%
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Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:20:35392/1171Beat 67%
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Paris22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:24:07595/1347Beat 56%
↑ 20 days after Hamburg 2025 11:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 0:23 slower for everyone and the clock still says 10:38 faster: 11:01 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:23 slower This athlete10:38 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:45970/1486Beat 35%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:17:14 PB1023/1325Beat 23%