Progress against the field
From Hamburg 2025 to Cologne 2026, Daniel Zwetzschler and Christian Sallmann got 4:56 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:32 quicker, so 8:28 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Hamburg 2025 → Frankfurt 2025: 7:48 in 71 days.
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
3 races · 3 events
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:29:00 PB218/282Beat 23%
↑ 125 days after Frankfurt 2025, with Christian Sallmann 2:52 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:14 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:06 faster for everyone, so 2:52 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:06 faster This pair0:14 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:29:14799/941Beat 15%
↑ 71 days after Hamburg 2025, with Christian Sallmann 7:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:14 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:26 faster for everyone, so 7:48 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:26 faster This pair8:14 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:37:28868/935Beat 7%