Progress against the field
Between Hamburg 2024 and Berlin 2025, Katharina Smerd and Meike Thurz kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:24 quicker, so 6:27 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.
Every race
20 races · 14 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:34:46172/204Beat 16%
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Berlin22 May 2026Relay · Women1:16:1614/45Beat 69%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Women1:17:19151/777Beat 81%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:14:1054/139Beat 61%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:18:44104/276Beat 62%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:30:50 PB209/583Beat 64%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:13:51 PB56/133Beat 58%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:22:36129/183Beat 30%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:21:36429/1496Beat 71%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Relay · Women1:16:5415/58Beat 74%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Women1:19:47199/739Beat 73%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Women1:17:05 PB217/541Beat 60%
↑ 83 days after Vienna 2025, with Meike Thurz 1:15 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:58 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:13 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:15 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:13 faster This pair0:58 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Relay · Mixed1:14:0128/69Beat 59%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Pro · Women1:24:2332/43Beat 26%
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Vienna22 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Women1:18:03228/595Beat 62%
↑ 70 days after Frankfurt 2024, with Meike Thurz 1:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:25 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:23 faster for everyone, so 1:02 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:23 faster This pair4:25 faster -
Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Doubles Open · Women1:22:28322/788Beat 59%
↑ 42 days after Hamburg 2024, with Meike Thurz 0:16 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:16 better than the field: 1:04 faster on the clock, against 0:48 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:48 faster This pair1:04 faster -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Women1:23:32288/609Beat 53%
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Hamburg2 Nov 2024Relay · Women1:14:584/25Beat 84%
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Frankfurt9 Dec 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:30 PB196/288Beat 32%
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KölnDate unknownDoubles Open · Women1:18:42129/400Beat 68%