Progress against the field
Emanuel Schmidt and Ralf Penners have dropped 3:57 behind the field from Maastricht 2025 to Hamburg 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 7:03 quicker, so 3:06 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
209 days between Maastricht 2025 and Cologne 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 2:46 better than 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
7 races · 7 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:17:06126/219Beat 43%
↑ 159 days after Berlin 2026, with Ralf Penners 1:26 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:01 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:25 faster for everyone: 1:26 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:25 faster This pair0:01 slower -
Maastricht19 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:36:00 PB822/1119Beat 27%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:17:05427/816Beat 48%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2026, with Ralf Penners 5:17 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:17 behind the field: 3:11 slower on the clock, against 2:06 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:06 faster This pair3:11 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:13:54 PB199/490Beat 59%
↑ 209 days after Maastricht 2025, with Ralf Penners 2:46 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:18 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:32 faster for everyone, so 2:46 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:32 faster This pair6:18 faster -
Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:32:56828/879Beat 6%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:20:12577/821Beat 30%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:32:18 PB794/921Beat 14%