Progress against the field
Between Rome 2025 and Lyon 2026, Sam Valentine kept pace with the field.
The clock says 3:11 faster, but the races themselves got 3:15 quicker for everyone.
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.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Valencia17 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:10:22 PB112/419Beat 73%
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Athens5 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:02:45 PB36/367Beat 90%
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Lyon20 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:03:2833/1513Beat 98%
↑ 167 days after London Excel 2025 0:39 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:39 behind the field: 0:21 slower on the clock, against 0:18 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 faster This athlete0:21 slower -
Copenhagen13 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:03:3933/757Beat 96%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:03:07 PB97/2779Beat 97%
↑ 69 days after Rome 2025 0:35 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:32 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:57 faster for everyone, so 0:35 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:57 faster This athlete3:32 faster -
Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:06:39111/1367Beat 92%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:5145/267Beat 83%