Progress against the field
From Frankfurt 2023 to Cologne 2025, Dennis Sommer has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 6:32 quicker, so 6:18 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 329 days between Frankfurt 2023 and Hamburg 2024, cost 1:12 on 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
8 races · 7 events
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:15:38 PB123/282Beat 56%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:13:15 PB270/526Beat 49%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:12 PB151/962Beat 84%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:21 PB485/1182Beat 59%
↑ 117 days after Frankfurt 2024 11:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:06 better than the field: 14:04 faster on the clock, against 2:58 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:58 faster This athlete14:04 faster -
Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men1:36:251140/1480Beat 23%
↑ 42 days after Hamburg 2024 10:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:26 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:18 slower for everyone: 10:08 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 slower This athlete10:26 slower -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:25:59630/1248Beat 50%
↑ 329 days after Frankfurt 2023 1:12 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:40 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:52 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:12 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:52 faster This athlete2:40 faster -
Frankfurt9 Dec 2023Individual Open · Men1:28:39496/843Beat 41%
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KölnDate unknownDoubles Pro · Men1:14:2460/89Beat 33%