Progress against the field
Between Dublin 2024 and Malaga 2026, Christian Jones pulled 8:13 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:18 quicker, so 15:31 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 362 days between Dublin 2024 and Dublin 2025, still ended 9:15 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
11 races · 10 events
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Karlsruhe1 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:16:42 PB108/320Beat 66%
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Tenerife4 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:5347/220Beat 79%
↑ 141 days after Malaga 2026, with Rachael King 1:37 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:26 slower on the clock in a race that was 5:49 slower for everyone: 1:37 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:49 slower This pair7:26 slower -
Riga30 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:05:13 PB52/112Beat 54%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:27 PB107/842Beat 87%
↑ 133 days after London Excel 2025, with Rachael King 6:55 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:55 better than the field: 8:14 faster on the clock, against 1:19 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:19 faster This pair8:14 faster -
Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:07:18 PB48/474Beat 90%
↑ 155 days after Dublin 2025 1:02 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:29 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:31 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:02 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 faster This athlete2:29 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:19:3980/134Beat 40%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:41508/1474Beat 66%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:4778/468Beat 83%
↑ 362 days after Dublin 2024 9:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
13:02 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:47 faster for everyone, so 9:15 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:47 faster This athlete13:02 faster -
Valencia17 Oct 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:18:3671/81Beat 12%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Relay · Mixed1:10:5118/46Beat 61%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:22:49231/545Beat 58%