Progress against the field
Merlin Varol has gained 15:58 on the field from Hamburg 2025 to Vienna 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 2:37 quicker, so 18:35 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 7 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Relay · Men1:31:0356/59Beat 5%
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:38:16 PB477/520Beat 8%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:04:43 PB10/243Beat 96%
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EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:07245/359Beat 32%
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Vienna6 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men2:07:15 PB1281/1311Beat 2%
↑ 127 days after Hamburg 2025 15:58 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
18:35 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:37 faster for everyone, so 15:58 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:37 faster This athlete18:35 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:37369/506Beat 27%
↑ 250 days after Berlin 2025, with Lynn Erdmann 3:40 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 0:47 slower for everyone and the clock still says 2:53 faster: 3:40 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:47 slower This pair2:53 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men2:25:50408/409Beat 0%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:30465/528Beat 12%