Progress against the field
Merlin Smeenk has dropped 1:40 behind the field from Berlin 2025 to Frankfurt 2025.
The races themselves barely changed, so 1:34 slower on the clock is the real picture.
The largest gain on the field came from Berlin 2025 → Maastricht 2025: 7:22 in 126 days.
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
5 races · 5 events
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:30:561172/1883Beat 38%
↑ 84 days after Maastricht 2025 9:02 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:52 slower on the clock in a race that was 4:10 faster for everyone: 9:02 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:10 faster This athlete4:52 slower -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:31:43 PB263/340Beat 23%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:22:39 PB381/711Beat 46%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:26:04 PB536/1352Beat 60%
↑ 126 days after Berlin 2025 7:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:18 faster on the clock in a race that was 4:04 slower for everyone: 7:22 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:04 slower This athlete3:18 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:29:221395/1851Beat 25%