Progress against the field
Manuel Blank has dropped 7:10 behind the field from Cologne 2025 to Cologne 2026.
The clock says 2:32 slower, but the races themselves got 4:38 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 204 days between Cologne 2025 and Stuttgart 2025, cost 11:34 on 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men59:20 PB26/816Beat 97%
↑ 177 days after Mechelen 2026, with Sascha Männchen 2:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:54 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:21 slower for everyone: 2:15 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:21 slower This pair1:54 faster -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:0849/259Beat 81%
↑ 167 days after Stuttgart 2025 4:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:18 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:54 faster for everyone, so 4:24 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:54 faster This athlete7:18 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:1468/867Beat 92%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:33 PB389/1469Beat 74%
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Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:26422/1171Beat 64%
↑ 204 days after Cologne 2025 11:34 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:50 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:44 faster for everyone: 11:34 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:44 faster This athlete9:50 slower -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:36 PB157/1182Beat 87%