Progress against the field
Paul Scharfe has gained 1:39 on the field from Amsterdam 2024 to Belgium 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 4:17 quicker, so 5:56 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Amsterdam 2024 → Paris 2024: 2:14 on the field in 30 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 8 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:54 PB15/306Beat 95%
↑ 579 days after Karlsruhe 2025, with Bob Scharfe 2:05 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:11 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:16 faster for everyone, so 2:05 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:16 faster This pair0:11 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:04:29 PB220/493Beat 55%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:06:45 PB90/1638Beat 95%
↑ 112 days after Frankfurt 2024 1:33 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:33 better than the field: 3:03 faster on the clock, against 1:30 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:30 faster This athlete3:03 faster -
Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:0540/603Beat 93%
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Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men1:09:48174/1480Beat 88%
↑ 35 days after Paris 2024 2:08 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:07 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:15 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:08 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:15 faster This athlete0:07 faster -
Paris9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:09:55145/1585Beat 91%
↑ 30 days after Amsterdam 2024 2:14 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:46 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:32 faster for everyone, so 2:14 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:32 faster This athlete2:46 faster -
Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:12:4182/659Beat 88%
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KölnDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:20:19343/815Beat 58%