Progress against the field
Serge Esterlein and Christian Kristen have dropped 5:28 behind the field from Hamburg 2025 to Hamburg 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 4:39 quicker, so 0:49 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 196 days between Hamburg 2025 and Cologne 2026, cost 4:52 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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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:13:24286/475Beat 40%
↑ 195 days after Cologne 2026, with Christian Kristen 0:36 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:48 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:24 faster for everyone, so 0:36 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:24 faster This pair1:48 faster -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:15:12303/526Beat 42%
↑ 196 days after Hamburg 2025, with Christian Kristen 4:52 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:37 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:15 faster for everyone: 4:52 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:15 faster This pair2:37 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:12:35118/240Beat 51%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:13:5460/87Beat 31%
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Hamburg2 Nov 2024Relay · Mixed1:06:554/33Beat 88%
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Hamburg2 Nov 2024Doubles Pro · Men1:13:4770/119Beat 41%
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Essen12 Nov 2022Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:39 PB80/100Beat 20%
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KölnDate unknownDoubles Pro · Men1:11:47 PB55/89Beat 38%