Progress against the field
Between Cologne 2025 and Hamburg 2025, Timon Barden pulled 8:23 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:56 quicker, so 10:19 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Cologne 2025 → Berlin 2025: 4:21 in 36 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 5 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:05:4488/816Beat 89%
↑ 371 days after Berlin 2025, with Jonas Buchsteiner 2:28 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:28 behind the field: 3:21 slower on the clock, against 0:53 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:53 slower This pair3:21 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:17:13 PB148/455Beat 68%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:11 PB93/339Beat 73%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:14 PB89/1486Beat 94%
↑ 139 days after Berlin 2025 4:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:24 faster on the clock in a race that was 1:38 slower for everyone: 4:02 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:38 slower This athlete2:24 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:23 PB212/1325Beat 84%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:38226/748Beat 70%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2025 4:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:21 better than the field: 7:55 faster on the clock, against 3:34 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:34 faster This athlete7:55 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:33408/1182Beat 66%