Progress against the field
Between Hannover 2023 and Cologne 2025, Thomas Flak lost 14:18 to the field.
The clock says 9:33 slower, but the races themselves got 4:45 quicker for everyone.
371 days between Frankfurt 2023 and Frankfurt 2024 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 5:13 behind 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.
Every race
17 races · 15 events
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Katowice21 Feb 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:22:47 PB134/141Beat 5%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:521104/1469Beat 25%
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Relay · Mixed1:25:5746/62Beat 26%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:35:41886/1182Beat 25%
↑ 117 days after Frankfurt 2024 7:11 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:13 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:58 faster for everyone: 7:11 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:58 faster This athlete4:13 slower -
Katowice22 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Men1:19:08 PB170/256Beat 34%
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Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men1:31:281007/1480Beat 32%
↑ 371 days after Frankfurt 2023 5:13 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:38 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:35 faster for everyone: 5:13 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:35 faster This athlete3:38 slower -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Relay · Mixed1:28:1425/33Beat 24%
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Stuttgart28 Sep 2024Doubles Pro · Men1:23:4067/75Beat 11%
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Karlsruhe16 Mar 2024Doubles Pro · Men1:27:3951/54Beat 6%
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Frankfurt9 Dec 2023Individual Open · Men1:27:50481/843Beat 43%
↑ 217 days after Hannover 2023 1:54 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:54 behind the field: 1:42 slower on the clock, against 0:12 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:12 faster This athlete1:42 slower -
Hannover6 May 2023Individual Open · Men1:26:08 PB188/354Beat 47%
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Hannover6 May 2023Relay · Men1:40:05—Beat 1%
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Karlsruhe11 Mar 2023Doubles Open · Men1:24:2589/127Beat 30%
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Frankfurt10 Dec 2022Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:31 PB126/148Beat 15%
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Essen12 Nov 2022Individual Open · Men1:48:02174/189Beat 8%
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OberhausenDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:34:5499/145Beat 32%
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KölnDate unknownDoubles Open · Men1:22:33140/224Beat 38%