Progress against the field
From Hamburg 2023 to Hamburg 2026, Christian Blankenburg got 3:28 faster than the field.
The clock says 6:13 faster, but the races themselves got 2:45 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 684 days between Hamburg 2023 and Hamburg 2025, still ended 7:57 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:11:01106/1103Beat 90%
↑ 391 days after Hamburg 2025 4:29 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:29 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:00 faster for everyone: 4:29 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:00 faster This athlete1:29 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:32 PB97/1486Beat 94%
↑ 684 days after Hamburg 2023 7:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:42 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:15 slower for everyone: 7:57 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:15 slower This athlete7:42 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:09 PB417/1325Beat 69%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:07:31113/461Beat 76%
↑ 159 days after Hamburg 2024, with Oliver Zorr 2:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:27 better than the field: 3:52 faster on the clock, against 1:25 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:25 faster This pair3:52 faster -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:11:23252/700Beat 64%
↑ 196 days after Berlin 2024, with Oliver Zorr 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:06 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:06 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:06 faster This pair0:06 faster -
Berlin20 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Men1:11:29247/421Beat 41%
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Hamburg18 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:17:14171/737Beat 77%