Progress against the field
Between Karlsruhe 2024 and Frankfurt 2025, Ralph Linkenheil lost 5:38 to the field.
The clock says 0:41 slower, but the races themselves got 4:57 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 440 days between Stuttgart 2024 and Frankfurt 2025, still ended 1:45 ahead of 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 · Men1:45:121603/1883Beat 15%
↑ 440 days after Stuttgart 2024 1:45 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:30 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:45 faster for everyone, so 1:45 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:45 faster This athlete5:30 faster -
Stuttgart28 Sep 2024Individual Open · Men1:50:42692/770Beat 10%
↑ 196 days after Karlsruhe 2024 7:23 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:11 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:12 faster for everyone: 7:23 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:12 faster This athlete6:11 slower -
Karlsruhe16 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:44:31 PB660/774Beat 15%