Progress against the field
From Karlsruhe 2025 to Mechelen 2026, Jan Darda got 2:20 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:03 quicker, so 9:23 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 215 days between Karlsruhe 2025 and Hamburg 2025, still ended 5:54 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
12 races · 11 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:01:42 PB48/255Beat 81%
↑ 335 days after Stuttgart 2025, with Moritz Müller 0:28 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:55 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:27 faster for everyone, so 0:28 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:27 faster This pair1:55 faster -
Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:04:34123/316Beat 61%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:09:54208/361Beat 42%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:22 PB86/243Beat 65%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:2426/282Beat 91%
↑ 371 days after Cologne 2025, with Fabio Dahlem 5:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:02 better than the field: 6:17 faster on the clock, against 1:15 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:15 faster This pair6:17 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:51 PB139/561Beat 75%
↑ 175 days after Hamburg 2025 3:34 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:38 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:12 faster for everyone, so 3:34 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:12 faster This athlete0:38 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:1657/344Beat 83%
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Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:03:3796/388Beat 75%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:29243/1486Beat 84%
↑ 215 days after Karlsruhe 2025 5:54 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:45 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:51 faster for everyone, so 5:54 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:51 faster This athlete8:45 faster -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:12 PB61/821Beat 93%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:4161/149Beat 59%
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Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:14447/1208Beat 63%