Progress against the field
Between Stuttgart 2025 and Karlsruhe 2026, Vanessa Schäffner lost 1:24 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:25 quicker, so 0:01 faster 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Individual Open · Women1:37:2486/172Beat 50%
↑ 168 days after Cologne 2026 0:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:47 slower on the clock, and the race was 1:55 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:55 slower This athlete1:47 slower -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:35:37 PB289/583Beat 50%
↑ 167 days after Stuttgart 2025 1:32 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:48 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:20 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:32 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:20 faster This athlete1:48 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:32:05 PB977/1496Beat 35%
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Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:37:25547/852Beat 36%