Progress against the field
From Frankfurt 2023 to Frankfurt 2024, Holger Leßmeister and Dirk Bolenz have moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 2:31 quicker, so 2:27 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 273 days between Karlsruhe 2024 and Frankfurt 2024, still ended 4:01 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
5 races · 5 events
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Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:22:29660/941Beat 30%
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Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Doubles Open · Men1:19:39 PB454/700Beat 35%
↑ 273 days after Karlsruhe 2024, with Dirk Bolenz 4:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:01 better than the field: 6:13 faster on the clock, against 2:12 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:12 faster This pair6:13 faster -
Karlsruhe16 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men1:25:52223/306Beat 27%
↑ 98 days after Frankfurt 2023, with Dirk Bolenz 4:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:46 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:19 faster for everyone: 4:05 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:19 faster This pair3:46 slower -
Frankfurt9 Dec 2023Doubles Open · Men1:22:06230/324Beat 29%
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Karlsruhe11 Mar 2023Individual Open · Men1:38:20 PB208/282Beat 26%