Progress against the field
Karsten Wessel has dropped 8:43 behind the field from Hannover 2023 to Hamburg 2025.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 8:28 slower on the clock is close to the whole story.
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
5 races · 5 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:36 PB328/852Beat 62%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:21687/1486Beat 54%
↑ 880 days after Hannover 2023 8:43 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:43 behind the field: 8:28 slower on the clock, against 0:15 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:15 faster This athlete8:28 slower -
Hannover6 May 2023Individual Open · Men1:18:53 PB121/354Beat 66%
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Hamburg26 Nov 2022Doubles Open · Men1:06:12 PB34/247Beat 86%
↑ 252 days after Bremen 2022, with Alexander Schlobohm 1:51 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:11 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:40 slower for everyone: 1:51 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:40 slower This pair1:11 faster -
Bremen19 Mar 2022Doubles Open · Men1:07:2319/104Beat 82%