Progress against the field
From Hannover 2023 to Cologne 2026, Vahdet Akkaya got 0:59 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:05 quicker, so 5:04 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 705 days between Hannover 2023 and Cologne 2025, still ended 13:50 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
11 races · 10 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:32:53467/530Beat 12%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:22:02192/233Beat 18%
↑ 762 days after Berlin 2024, with Louis Herfurth 10:15 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:15 behind the field: 10:33 slower on the clock, against 0:18 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 slower This pair10:33 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:32:41171/259Beat 34%
↑ 196 days after Hamburg 2025 13:53 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:06 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:47 faster for everyone: 13:53 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:47 faster This athlete10:06 slower -
Poznan13 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:00 PB207/540Beat 62%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:35 PB509/1486Beat 66%
↑ 175 days after Cologne 2025 1:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:41 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:39 faster for everyone, so 1:02 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This athlete2:41 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:52281/496Beat 43%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:16568/1182Beat 52%
↑ 705 days after Hannover 2023 13:50 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 1:21 slower for everyone and the clock still says 12:29 faster: 13:50 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:21 slower This athlete12:29 faster -
Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Doubles Open · Men1:16:04355/700Beat 49%
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Berlin20 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Men1:11:29248/421Beat 41%
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Hamburg18 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:55 PB162/293Beat 45%
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Hannover6 May 2023Individual Open · Men1:37:45283/354Beat 20%