Progress against the field
Between Frankfurt 2024 and Cologne 2025, Gisbert Petters lost 1:51 to the field.
The clock says 1:52 faster, but the races themselves got 3:43 quicker for everyone.
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
13 races · 13 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:07:1841/398Beat 90%
↑ 159 days after Berlin 2026, with Michel Werwitzke 5:32 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:07 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:25 faster for everyone: 5:32 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:25 faster This pair4:07 slower -
Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:21:52155/320Beat 52%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:1128/371Beat 93%
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Lisboa1 May 2026Individual Pro · Men1:21:17 PB201/352Beat 43%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:23:26148/254Beat 42%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:31125/1182Beat 89%
↑ 47 days after Vienna 2025 0:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:09 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:02 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 faster This athlete0:09 faster -
Vienna22 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:40367/1356Beat 73%
↑ 70 days after Frankfurt 2024 1:58 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:43 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:41 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:58 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:41 faster This athlete1:43 faster -
Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men1:12:23246/1480Beat 83%
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Hamburg2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men59:47 PB26/700Beat 96%
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Washington - North American Championships2 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:13:2692/498Beat 82%
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Frankfurt9 Dec 2023Individual Open · Men1:14:23158/843Beat 81%
↑ 308 days after Stuttgart 2023 0:18 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:36 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:54 faster for everyone, so 0:18 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:54 faster This athlete1:36 faster -
Stuttgart4 Feb 2023Individual Open · Men1:15:5959/267Beat 78%
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KölnDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:08:01 PB81/815Beat 90%