Progress against the field
Thomas Martens has gained 4:47 on the field from Hamburg 2024 to Vienna 2026.
The clock says 9:30 faster, but the races themselves got 4:43 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 334 days between Hamburg 2024 and Hamburg 2025, still ended 3:20 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 9 events
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:18:56 PB313/385Beat 19%
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Vienna6 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:25:18 PB627/1311Beat 52%
↑ 98 days after Stuttgart 2025 0:54 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:17 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:11 faster for everyone, so 0:54 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:11 faster This athlete2:17 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:31:45 PB1168/1469Beat 21%
↑ 210 days after Berlin 2025, with Sarah Martens 12:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 2:04 slower for everyone and the clock still says 10:20 faster: 12:24 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:04 slower This pair10:20 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:35609/1171Beat 48%
↑ 29 days after Hamburg 2025 2:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:21 better than the field: 3:18 faster on the clock, against 0:57 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:57 faster This athlete3:18 faster -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:30:53843/1486Beat 43%
↑ 334 days after Hamburg 2024 3:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:55 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:35 faster for everyone, so 3:20 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:35 faster This athlete3:55 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:42:05516/528Beat 2%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:21:38 PB349/461Beat 24%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:48:56673/707Beat 5%
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Hamburg2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:34:48907/1248Beat 27%