Progress against the field
Verena Elbers and Björn Bösing have dropped 5:09 behind the field from Cologne 2025 to Berlin 2026.
The clock says 2:19 slower, but the races themselves got 2:50 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 232 days between Hamburg 2025 and Berlin 2026, cost 4:43 on 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 Doubles Open · Mixed, with Björn Bösing, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 7 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:11251/960Beat 74%
↑ 232 days after Hamburg 2025, with Björn Bösing 4:43 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:43 behind the field: 5:09 slower on the clock, against 0:26 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:26 slower This pair5:09 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Women1:22:3592/262Beat 65%
↑ 371 days after Cologne 2025, with Kamila Benschop 2:13 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:40 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:33 faster for everyone: 2:13 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:33 faster This pair0:40 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:02 PB113/711Beat 84%
↑ 139 days after Berlin 2025, with Björn Bösing 1:47 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:44 faster on the clock in a race that was 1:03 slower for everyone: 1:47 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 slower This pair0:44 faster -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Pro · Women1:27:43 PB34/62Beat 45%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:46380/892Beat 57%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2025, with Björn Bösing 2:13 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:06 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:19 faster for everyone, so 2:13 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:19 faster This pair2:06 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:5271/333Beat 79%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Women1:21:55 PB116/250Beat 54%
↑ 159 days after Hamburg 2024, with Kamila Benschop 0:12 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:09 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:21 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:12 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:21 faster This pair2:09 faster -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Women1:24:04300/609Beat 51%