Progress against the field
Rainer Kruse has dropped 0:43 behind the field from Hamburg 2024 to Cologne 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 7:05 quicker, so 6:22 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
196 days between Hamburg 2025 and Cologne 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 15:08 better than 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:43:11747/924Beat 19%
↑ 196 days after Hamburg 2025 15:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
18:55 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:47 faster for everyone, so 15:08 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:47 faster This athlete18:55 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men2:02:061416/1486Beat 5%
↑ 139 days after Berlin 2025 19:37 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
19:37 behind the field: 21:15 slower on the clock, against 1:38 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:38 slower This athlete21:15 slower -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:40:51 PB1669/1851Beat 10%
↑ 195 days after Hamburg 2024 3:46 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:46 better than the field: 8:42 faster on the clock, against 4:56 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:56 faster This athlete8:42 faster -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:49:331125/1248Beat 10%