Progress against the field
Between Karlsruhe 2025 and Hamburg 2025, Benjamin Sommer pulled 1:56 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:51 quicker, so 4:47 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
5 races · 5 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:21:43 PB201/556Beat 64%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:41515/1486Beat 65%
↑ 215 days after Karlsruhe 2025 1:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:56 better than the field: 4:47 faster on the clock, against 2:51 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:51 faster This athlete4:47 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:07 PB292/921Beat 68%
↑ 159 days after Hamburg 2024, with Laura Sommer 8:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:17 better than the field: 9:54 faster on the clock, against 1:37 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:37 faster This pair9:54 faster -
Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:28575/1208Beat 52%
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Hamburg2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:01402/618Beat 35%