Progress against the field
From Stuttgart 2025 to Hamburg 2026, Sascha Wächter got 3:45 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:57 quicker, so 9:42 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Stuttgart 2025 → Cologne 2026: 4:17 in 167 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 Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:12:43 PB168/653Beat 74%
↑ 27 days after Karlsruhe 2026 0:49 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:37 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:48 faster for everyone, so 0:49 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:48 faster This athlete3:37 faster -
Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:16:20102/320Beat 68%
↑ 168 days after Cologne 2026 1:21 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:59 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:38 slower for everyone: 1:21 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:38 slower This athlete1:59 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:14:21111/455Beat 76%
↑ 167 days after Stuttgart 2025 4:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:17 better than the field: 8:04 faster on the clock, against 3:47 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:47 faster This athlete8:04 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:22:25184/340Beat 46%
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Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:35:56 PB837/1208Beat 31%
↑ 1064 days after Karlsruhe 2022 2:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:21 better than the field: 3:57 faster on the clock, against 1:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This athlete3:57 faster -
Karlsruhe2 Apr 2022Individual Open · Men1:39:53162/222Beat 27%