Progress against the field
From Berlin 2025 to Cologne 2026, Melanie Kleinjung and Phillip Plachta have moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
The clock says 1:23 faster, but the races themselves got 1:24 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Berlin 2025 → Stuttgart 2025: 2:40 on the field 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 Phillip Plachta, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 6 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:13:09 PB47/139Beat 66%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:57 PB58/243Beat 76%
↑ 167 days after Stuttgart 2025, with Phillip Plachta 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 2026Doubles Open · Women1:27:50 PB176/327Beat 46%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Women1:28:33 PB413/1071Beat 61%
↑ 246 days after Cologne 2025 0:27 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:25 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:52 faster for everyone, so 0:27 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:52 faster This athlete2:25 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:03203/855Beat 76%
↑ 168 days after Berlin 2025, with Phillip Plachta 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 -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:20483/892Beat 46%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Women1:30:58150/317Beat 53%