Progress against the field
Between Cologne 2025 and Frankfurt 2025, Harald Gerstler lost 3:06 to the field.
The clock says 0:57 faster, but the races themselves got 4:03 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Hamburg 2025 → Frankfurt 2025: 5:34 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
7 races · 7 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:39:17485/586Beat 17%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:27:47166/243Beat 32%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:41:101513/1883Beat 20%
↑ 71 days after Hamburg 2025 5:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:41 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:07 faster for everyone, so 5:34 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:07 faster This athlete7:41 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:25:03 PB567/855Beat 34%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:48:511287/1486Beat 13%
↑ 139 days after Berlin 2025 11:26 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:26 behind the field: 13:04 slower on the clock, against 1:38 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:38 slower This athlete13:04 slower -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:35:47 PB1576/1851Beat 15%
↑ 36 days after Cologne 2025 2:46 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:46 better than the field: 6:20 faster on the clock, against 3:34 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:34 faster This athlete6:20 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:42:07418/494Beat 15%