Progress against the field
From Frankfurt 2025 to Hamburg 2026, Vanessa Hettich and Michel Lerch got 4:45 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:02 quicker, so 8:47 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 195 days between Cologne 2026 and Hamburg 2026, still ended 3:08 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:37 PB41/577Beat 93%
↑ 195 days after Cologne 2026, with Michel Lerch 3:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:08 better than the field: 4:57 faster on the clock, against 1:49 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:49 faster This pair4:57 faster -
Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:3472/311Beat 77%
↑ 125 days after Frankfurt 2025, with Michel Lerch 1:37 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:37 better than the field: 3:50 faster on the clock, against 2:13 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:13 faster This pair3:50 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:24518/1469Beat 65%