Progress against the field
From Hamburg 2024 to Cologne 2026, the field gained 2:25 on Kamila Benschop and Verena Elbers.
The clock says 1:29 faster, but the races themselves got 3:54 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 371 days between Cologne 2025 and Cologne 2026, cost 2:13 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
3 races · 3 events
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Women1:22:3592/262Beat 65%
↑ 371 days after Cologne 2025, with Verena Elbers 2:13 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:40 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:33 faster for everyone: 2:13 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:33 faster This pair0:40 slower -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Women1:21:55 PB116/250Beat 54%
↑ 159 days after Hamburg 2024, with Verena Elbers 0:12 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:09 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:21 faster for everyone, so 0:12 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:21 faster This pair2:09 faster -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Women1:24:04300/609Beat 51%