Progress against the field
Between Maastricht 2025 and Cologne 2026, Lars Tafelmeier pulled 8:58 ahead of the field.
The clock says 12:29 faster, but the races themselves got 3:31 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
4 races · 4 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:27:35 PB429/687Beat 38%
↑ 527 days after Cologne 2025, with Katharina Kommer 3:53 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:23 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:30 faster for everyone, so 3:53 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:30 faster This pair7:23 faster -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:46:25 PB777/924Beat 16%
↑ 209 days after Maastricht 2025 8:58 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:58 better than the field: 12:29 faster on the clock, against 3:31 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 faster This athlete12:29 faster -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:58:541249/1352Beat 8%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:34:58828/921Beat 10%