Progress against the field
Between Stuttgart 2025 and Karlsruhe 2026, Ralf Kalestra lost 5:10 to the field.
The clock says 1:32 slower, but the races themselves got 3:38 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 293 days between Frankfurt 2025 and Karlsruhe 2026, cost 5:06 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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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:33:24219/406Beat 46%
↑ 293 days after Frankfurt 2025 5:06 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:22 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:44 faster for everyone: 5:06 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:44 faster This athlete3:22 slower -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:30:02 PB1136/1883Beat 40%
↑ 42 days after Stuttgart 2025 0:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:50 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:54 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:54 faster This athlete1:50 faster -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:31:52746/1171Beat 36%