Progress against the field
Between Copenhagen 2026 and Gdansk 2026, Martin Helfrich pulled 2:00 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 0:33 quicker, so 2:33 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
9 races · 9 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:33 PB68/219Beat 69%
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Gdansk10 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:18:33 PB382/1349Beat 72%
↑ 211 days after Copenhagen 2026 2:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:00 better than the field: 2:33 faster on the clock, against 0:33 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:33 faster This athlete2:33 faster -
Copenhagen13 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:21:06172/390Beat 56%
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Vienna6 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:27:06701/1311Beat 47%
↑ 266 days after Berlin 2025 6:10 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:10 behind the field: 7:29 slower on the clock, against 1:19 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:19 slower This athlete7:29 slower -
Poznan13 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:18:45368/540Beat 32%
↑ 294 days after Katowice 2025, with Fridtjof Vieth 7:00 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:44 slower on the clock in a race that was 4:16 faster for everyone: 7:00 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:16 faster This pair2:44 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:54 PB110/711Beat 85%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:37885/1851Beat 52%
↑ 63 days after Copenhagen 2025 2:36 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:07 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:43 faster for everyone, so 2:36 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:43 faster This athlete0:07 faster -
Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:44553/1323Beat 58%
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Katowice22 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Men1:16:01144/256Beat 44%