Progress against the field
From Cologne 2025 to Barcelona 2026, Nils Matthiesen got 7:40 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 8:14 quicker, so 15:54 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
246 days between Cologne 2025 and Frankfurt 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 9:58 better than the field.
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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Barcelona14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:19:31 PB237/643Beat 63%
↑ 153 days after Frankfurt 2025 2:18 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:07 faster on the clock, yet the race was 6:25 faster for everyone, so 2:18 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:25 faster This athlete4:07 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:38779/1883Beat 59%
↑ 246 days after Cologne 2025 9:58 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:47 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:49 faster for everyone, so 9:58 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:49 faster This athlete11:47 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:35:25877/1182Beat 26%
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Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:381005/1323Beat 24%