Progress against the field
Between Stuttgart 2024 and Cologne 2025, Julian Merkel and Sophie Merkel lost 1:10 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:00 quicker, so 5:50 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Karlsruhe 2025 → Cologne 2025: 4:28 on the field in 40 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.
Every race
9 races · 8 events
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:29:42 PB510/924Beat 45%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:52 PB751/921Beat 19%
↑ 40 days after Karlsruhe 2025, with Sophie Merkel 4:28 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:28 better than the field: 9:28 faster on the clock, against 5:00 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:00 faster This pair9:28 faster -
Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:39:20645/726Beat 11%
↑ 154 days after Stuttgart 2024, with Sophie Merkel 5:38 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:38 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:00 faster for everyone: 5:38 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:00 faster This pair3:38 slower -
Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Individual Pro · Men1:45:12 PB165/184Beat 10%
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Stuttgart28 Sep 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:35:42334/390Beat 14%
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München14 Oct 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:38:42178/190Beat 6%
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Karlsruhe11 Mar 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:43:07104/108Beat 4%
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Leipzig8 Oct 2022Doubles Open · Mixed1:49:0565/69Beat 6%
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KölnDate unknownDoubles Pro · Men1:21:31 PB77/89Beat 14%