Progress against the field
Between Frankfurt 2024 and Hamburg 2026, Laura Sommer kept pace with the field.
The clock says 6:09 faster, but the races themselves got 6:11 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 391 days between Hamburg 2025 and Hamburg 2026, cost 1:05 on 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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Individual Open · Women1:20:08 PB36/375Beat 90%
↑ 391 days after Hamburg 2025 1:05 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:26 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:31 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:05 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:31 faster This athlete0:26 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:11:31 PB49/882Beat 94%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:20:34136/668Beat 80%
↑ 215 days after Karlsruhe 2025 0:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:05 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:38 faster for everyone, so 0:27 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:38 faster This athlete4:05 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:07 PB292/921Beat 68%
↑ 159 days after Hamburg 2024, with Benjamin Sommer 8:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:54 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:37 faster for everyone, so 8:17 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:37 faster This pair9:54 faster -
Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Women1:24:39139/510Beat 73%
↑ 77 days after Frankfurt 2024 0:36 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:38 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:02 faster for everyone, so 0:36 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:02 faster This athlete1:38 faster -
Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Individual Open · Women1:26:17290/763Beat 62%
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Hamburg2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:01402/618Beat 35%