Progress against the field
Between Stuttgart 2025 and Karlsruhe 2026, Tobias Eckler and Marco Kiefaber pulled 1:57 ahead of the field.
The clock says 5:27 faster, but the races themselves got 3:30 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Berlin 2026 → Karlsruhe 2026: 2:01 on the field in 132 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
4 races · 4 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:11:47 PB52/155Beat 67%
↑ 132 days after Berlin 2026, with Marco Kiefaber 2:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 2:01 slower for everyone and the clock still says no different: 2:01 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:01 slower This pairno different -
Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:11:47267/699Beat 62%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2026, with Marco Kiefaber 0:44 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:50 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:06 faster for everyone, so 0:44 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:06 faster This pair2:50 faster -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:37218/490Beat 56%
↑ 167 days after Stuttgart 2025, with Marco Kiefaber 0:48 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:37 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:25 faster for everyone, so 0:48 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:25 faster This pair2:37 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:17:14462/755Beat 39%