Progress against the field
Melvin Franzen has dropped 3:07 behind the field from Frankfurt 2025 to Cologne 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 2:59 quicker, so 0:08 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 8 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men58:23 PB49/475Beat 90%
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Relay · Men53:233/59Beat 95%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Relay · Men54:483/47Beat 94%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:08:1446/924Beat 95%
↑ 125 days after Frankfurt 2025 3:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:08 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:59 faster for everyone: 3:07 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:59 faster This athlete0:08 slower -
Bilbao7 Feb 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:01:4761/163Beat 63%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:06 PB93/1883Beat 95%
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Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men59:49 PB26/755Beat 97%
↑ 168 days after Berlin 2025, with Max Gorich Hoffmann 4:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:59 faster on the clock in a race that was 2:31 slower for everyone: 4:30 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:31 slower This pair1:59 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:0440/935Beat 96%
↑ 175 days after Cologne 2025, with Pawel Jarutkin 1:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:57 better than the field: 5:14 faster on the clock, against 3:17 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:17 faster This pair5:14 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:48189/1325Beat 86%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:1886/461Beat 81%