Progress against the field
From Hamburg 2024 to Hamburg 2025, Marius Gerber and Michael Podolski have moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 4:48 quicker, so 4:59 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 222 days between Vienna 2025 and Hamburg 2025, still ended 2:39 ahead of 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Men, with Michael Podolski, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:05:33119/526Beat 77%
↑ 335 days after Berlin 2025, with Philipp Reek 0:55 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:55 behind the field: 2:53 slower on the clock, against 1:58 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:58 slower This pair2:53 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:03:52 PB25/250Beat 90%
↑ 222 days after Vienna 2025, with Michael Podolski 2:39 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:39 better than the field: 3:21 faster on the clock, against 0:42 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:42 faster This pair3:21 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:02:40 PB86/263Beat 67%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:49 PB107/921Beat 88%
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Vienna22 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Men1:07:13236/655Beat 64%
↑ 112 days after Hamburg 2024, with Michael Podolski 2:28 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:38 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 4:06 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:28 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:06 faster This pair1:38 faster -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:08:51176/700Beat 75%
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KölnDate unknownDoubles Open · Men1:17:04318/558Beat 43%