Progress against the field
Between Berlin 2025 and Cologne 2026, Phillip Plachta and Melanie Kleinjung kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:24 quicker, so 1:23 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Berlin 2025 → Stuttgart 2025: 2:40 in 168 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Mixed, with Melanie Kleinjung, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 9 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:08 PB59/586Beat 90%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:15:29286/361Beat 21%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:5758/243Beat 76%
↑ 167 days after Stuttgart 2025, with Melanie Kleinjung 2:41 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:06 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:47 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:41 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:47 faster This pair0:06 faster -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:20:07 PB175/455Beat 62%
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Copenhagen13 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:07:06 PB130/367Beat 65%
↑ 162 days after Hamburg 2025, with Kevin Schulze 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 1:18 faster on the clock, against 1:18 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:18 faster This pair1:18 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:43 PB242/1883Beat 87%
↑ 246 days after Cologne 2025 3:54 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:43 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:49 faster for everyone, so 3:54 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:49 faster This athlete5:43 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:03203/855Beat 76%
↑ 168 days after Berlin 2025, with Melanie Kleinjung 2:40 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:17 faster on the clock in a race that was 1:23 slower for everyone: 2:40 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:23 slower This pair1:17 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:08:2478/240Beat 68%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:20483/892Beat 46%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:26169/494Beat 66%