Progress against the field
From Hamburg 2021 to Hamburg 2024, Christian Prien got 5:06 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 11:47 quicker, so 16:53 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 364 days between Hamburg 2021 and Hamburg 2022, still ended 11:34 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
6 races · 6 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:16:57409/898Beat 55%
↑ 391 days after Hamburg 2025, with Maik Radloff 2:59 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:34 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:25 faster for everyone: 2:59 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:25 faster This pair1:34 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:15:23 PB444/935Beat 53%
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Hamburg2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:31:30815/1248Beat 35%
↑ 350 days after Hamburg 2023 5:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:04 behind the field: 2:03 slower on the clock, against 3:01 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:01 faster This athlete2:03 slower -
Hamburg18 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:29:27 PB420/737Beat 43%
↑ 357 days after Hamburg 2022 1:24 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:59 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:23 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:24 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:23 faster This athlete1:59 faster -
Hamburg26 Nov 2022Individual Open · Men1:31:26321/525Beat 39%
↑ 364 days after Hamburg 2021 11:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:57 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:23 faster for everyone, so 11:34 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →5:23 faster This athlete16:57 faster -
Hamburg27 Nov 2021Individual Open · Men1:48:23253/304Beat 17%