Progress against the field
From Stuttgart 2025 to Karlsruhe 2026, the field gained 5:18 on Volker Ley.
The clock says 2:09 slower, but the races themselves got 3:09 quicker for everyone.
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
8 races · 8 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:36260/577Beat 55%
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:38:46718/1003Beat 28%
↑ 168 days after Cologne 2026 1:56 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:56 behind the field: 1:41 slower on the clock, against 0:15 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:15 faster This athlete1:41 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:37:05653/924Beat 29%
↑ 167 days after Stuttgart 2025 3:22 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:28 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:54 faster for everyone: 3:22 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:54 faster This athlete0:28 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:04230/454Beat 49%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:05938/1469Beat 36%
↑ 246 days after Cologne 2025, with Isabella Dachtler-Ley 7:12 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:40 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:28 slower for everyone: 7:12 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:28 slower This pair7:40 slower -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:36:37 PB871/1171Beat 26%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:25 PB132/333Beat 60%
↑ 40 days after Karlsruhe 2025, with Isabella Dachtler-Ley 1:16 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:44 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:00 faster for everyone, so 1:16 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:00 faster This pair3:44 faster -
Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:22:09361/726Beat 50%