Progress against the field
Between Karlsruhe 2020 and Karlsruhe 2026, Martin Schäfer pulled 4:19 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:14 quicker, so 6:33 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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 · 11 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:06:05 PB30/1003Beat 97%
↑ 2413 days after Karlsruhe 2020 4:19 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:33 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:14 faster for everyone, so 4:19 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:14 faster This athlete6:33 faster -
Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:22:36551/699Beat 21%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:02:36 PB62/526Beat 88%
↑ 167 days after Stuttgart 2025, with Fabian Müller 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:21 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:21 faster This pair0:21 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:12:45352/941Beat 63%
↑ 42 days after Stuttgart 2025, with Luca Circelli 1:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:18 better than the field: 1:24 faster on the clock, against 0:06 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:06 faster This pair1:24 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:16:19 PB96/254Beat 62%
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Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:14:09368/755Beat 51%
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Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:02:5784/388Beat 78%
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Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:13 PB25/603Beat 96%
↑ 350 days after Karlsruhe 2024, with Oliver Fischer 2:03 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:20 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:23 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:03 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:23 faster This pair0:20 faster -
Karlsruhe16 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men1:00:3316/306Beat 95%
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Frankfurt10 Dec 2022Doubles Open · Men1:00:2310/141Beat 93%
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Karlsruhe2 Apr 2022Doubles Open · Men1:03:3610/109Beat 91%
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München26 Feb 2022Doubles Open · Men1:06:2723/84Beat 73%
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Karlsruhe22 Feb 2020Individual Open · Men1:12:3812/331Beat 96%