Progress against the field
From Vienna 2026 to Hamburg 2026, the field gained 3:18 on Linda Schmidt and Merle Wächter.
The clock says 2:20 faster, but the races themselves got 5:38 quicker for everyone.
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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Women, with Merle Wächter, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 6 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:43:28796/920Beat 14%
↑ 159 days after Berlin 2026, with Merle Wächter 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 -
Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:32:29430/586Beat 27%
↑ 168 days after Cologne 2026, with Michael Schmidt 6:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:34 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:29 slower for everyone: 6:05 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:29 slower This pair6:34 slower -
Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:31:27 PB105/183Beat 43%
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Individual Open · Women1:30:31 PB52/172Beat 70%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Women1:54:51803/847Beat 5%
↑ 105 days after Vienna 2026, with Merle Wächter 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 -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:25:55 PB198/311Beat 36%
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Vienna6 Feb 2026Doubles Open · Women1:45:481065/1157Beat 8%
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Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:41:07665/726Beat 8%