Progress against the field
Marcus Held and Marcus Lach have dropped 1:44 behind the field from Hamburg 2025 to Berlin 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 4:05 quicker, so 2:21 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 196 days between Hamburg 2025 and Cologne 2026, still ended 2:57 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:15:29360/816Beat 56%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2026, with Marcus Lach 4:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:41 behind the field: 2:35 slower on the clock, against 2:06 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:06 faster This pair2:35 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:12:54 PB179/490Beat 64%
↑ 196 days after Hamburg 2025, with Marcus Lach 2:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:57 better than the field: 4:56 faster on the clock, against 1:59 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:59 faster This pair4:56 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:17:50518/935Beat 45%