Progress against the field
Between Cologne 2025 and Vienna 2026, Simon Lesting kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:16 quicker, so 4:30 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Cologne 2025 → Hamburg 2025: 2:01 in 175 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
5 races · 5 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:52 PB51/530Beat 90%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:15:24 PB124/455Beat 73%
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Vienna6 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:11 PB112/1311Beat 92%
↑ 127 days after Hamburg 2025 1:47 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:50 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:37 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:47 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:37 faster This athlete0:50 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:01113/1486Beat 92%
↑ 175 days after Cologne 2025 2:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:01 better than the field: 3:40 faster on the clock, against 1:39 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This athlete3:40 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:4194/494Beat 81%