Progress against the field
From Bilbao 2024 to Malaga 2026, Jacob Smith got 6:58 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 11:16 quicker, so 18:14 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 405 days between Bilbao 2024 and Malaga 2025, still ended 4:41 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
12 races · 11 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:36:42472/560Beat 16%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:05:4161/677Beat 91%
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Athens5 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:05:3339/616Beat 94%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:05:21 PB92/1036Beat 91%
↑ 133 days after London Excel 2025 6:16 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:16 better than the field: 8:34 faster on the clock, against 2:18 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:18 faster This athlete8:34 faster -
Stockholm18 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:15:57 PB390/1002Beat 61%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:55633/2771Beat 77%
↑ 258 days after Malaga 2025 3:59 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:59 behind the field: 1:57 slower on the clock, against 2:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:02 faster This athlete1:57 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:56677/954Beat 29%
↑ 362 days after Birmingham 2024, with Janessa Neumann 11:40 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:46 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:54 faster for everyone: 11:40 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:54 faster This pair7:46 slower -
Malaga21 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:5870/534Beat 87%
↑ 405 days after Bilbao 2024 4:41 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:41 better than the field: 11:37 faster on the clock, against 6:56 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →6:56 faster This athlete11:37 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men57:35 PB21/984Beat 98%
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Poznan2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:02167/275Beat 39%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:10180/494Beat 64%
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Bilbao10 Feb 2024Individual Open · Men1:23:35300/527Beat 43%