Progress against the field
Between Hamburg 2018 and Hamburg 2021, Markus Niemann kept pace with the field.
The clock says 7:48 faster, but the races themselves got 7:47 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 672 days between Hannover 2020 and Hamburg 2021, still ended 2:47 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
10 races · 10 events
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:28:50500/711Beat 30%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:12:23 PB311/496Beat 37%
↑ 195 days after Hamburg 2024, with Johannes Müller 4:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:38 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:30 faster for everyone, so 4:08 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →4:30 faster This pair8:38 faster -
Hamburg2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:21:01502/700Beat 28%
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Hamburg18 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Men1:18:36205/348Beat 41%
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Hannover6 May 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:27:23 PB118/150Beat 21%
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Berlin5 Nov 2022Doubles Open · Men1:28:3864/76Beat 16%
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Hamburg27 Nov 2021Individual Open · Men1:30:52 PB144/304Beat 53%
↑ 672 days after Hannover 2020 2:47 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:47 better than the field: 6:38 faster on the clock, against 3:51 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:51 faster This athlete6:38 faster -
Hannover25 Jan 2020Individual Open · Men1:37:30207/325Beat 36%
↑ 364 days after Hannover 2019 5:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:31 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:09 faster for everyone, so 5:22 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:09 faster This athlete5:31 faster -
Hannover26 Jan 2019Individual Open · Men1:43:01207/260Beat 20%
↑ 84 days after Hamburg 2018 8:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:21 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:47 faster for everyone: 8:08 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:47 faster This athlete4:21 slower -
Hamburg3 Nov 2018Individual Open · Men1:38:40263/444Beat 41%