Progress against the field
Sven Birnbaum has dropped 0:15 behind the field from Hamburg 2023 to Frankfurt 2025.
The clock says 2:44 faster, but the races themselves got 2:59 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 405 days between Hamburg 2024 and Frankfurt 2025, cost 4:32 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:35901/1883Beat 52%
↑ 405 days after Hamburg 2024 4:32 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:34 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:02 slower for everyone: 4:32 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 slower This athlete4:34 slower -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:21:01 PB484/1248Beat 61%
↑ 350 days after Hamburg 2023 4:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:17 better than the field: 7:18 faster on the clock, against 3:01 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:01 faster This athlete7:18 faster -
Hamburg18 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:28:19402/737Beat 46%