Progress against the field
Between Cologne 2025 and Cologne 2026, Rafael Kurek lost 8:03 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:45 quicker, so 1:18 slower 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:26:56139/259Beat 46%
↑ 125 days after Frankfurt 2025 7:46 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:46 behind the field: 4:47 slower on the clock, against 2:59 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:59 faster This athlete4:47 slower -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:09 PB716/1883Beat 62%
↑ 71 days after Hamburg 2025 1:14 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:53 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:07 faster for everyone, so 1:14 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:07 faster This athlete0:53 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:02173/409Beat 58%
↑ 175 days after Cologne 2025 0:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:57 better than the field: 2:36 faster on the clock, against 1:39 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This athlete2:36 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:38591/1182Beat 50%