Progress against the field
Between Hamburg 2024 and Cologne 2025, Jan Meiners pulled 4:24 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:18 quicker, so 7:42 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Hamburg 2024 → Karlsruhe 2025: 8:26 on the field in 119 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 9 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Relay · Men1:01:1621/59Beat 64%
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:07:17 PB59/520Beat 89%
↑ 391 days after Hamburg 2025, with Benjamin Hiß 1:08 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:17 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:25 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:08 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:25 faster This pair0:17 faster -
Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:22:28549/699Beat 22%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:15:36122/282Beat 57%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:07:34164/935Beat 83%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:12 PB97/528Beat 82%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:49143/494Beat 71%
↑ 40 days after Karlsruhe 2025 4:02 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:02 behind the field: 0:40 slower on the clock, against 3:22 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:22 faster This athlete0:40 slower -
Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:09 PB234/1208Beat 81%
↑ 119 days after Hamburg 2024 8:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 0:04 slower for everyone and the clock still says 8:22 faster: 8:26 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:04 slower This athlete8:22 faster -
Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:50217/861Beat 75%
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Hamburg2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:24:31584/1248Beat 53%