Progress against the field
Benjamin Zeller has gained 3:22 on the field from Karlsruhe 2024 to Karlsruhe 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 8:19 quicker, so 11:41 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
390 days between Karlsruhe 2024 and Cologne 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 12:23 better than 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
4 races · 4 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:12:5643/321Beat 87%
↑ 335 days after Stuttgart 2025 7:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:55 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:46 faster for everyone: 7:41 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:46 faster This athlete4:55 slower -
Stuttgart31 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:01 PB61/1171Beat 95%
↑ 204 days after Cologne 2025 1:20 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:24 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:44 faster for everyone, so 1:20 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:44 faster This athlete0:24 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:2581/1182Beat 93%
↑ 390 days after Karlsruhe 2024 12:23 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:12 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:49 faster for everyone, so 12:23 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:49 faster This athlete16:12 faster -
Karlsruhe16 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:24:37345/774Beat 55%