Progress against the field
Merle Wächter and Linda Schmidt have dropped 3:18 behind the field from Vienna 2026 to Hamburg 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 5:38 quicker, so 2:20 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Berlin 2026 → Hamburg 2026: 8:00 in 159 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:43:28 PB796/920Beat 14%
↑ 159 days after Berlin 2026, with Linda Schmidt 8:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:23 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:23 faster for everyone, so 8:00 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:23 faster This pair11:23 faster -
Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Women1:54:51803/847Beat 5%
↑ 105 days after Vienna 2026, with Linda Schmidt 11:18 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:03 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:15 faster for everyone: 11:18 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:15 faster This pair9:03 slower -
Vienna6 Feb 2026Doubles Open · Women1:45:481065/1157Beat 8%