Progress against the field
Steve Smith has dropped 21:09 behind the field from Birmingham 2024 to Katowice 2025.
The clock says 14:46 slower, but the races themselves got 6:23 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
11 races · 11 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men59:23 PB30/600Beat 95%
↑ 519 days after Cardiff 2025, with John Penn 0:46 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:46 better than the field: 2:58 faster on the clock, against 2:12 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:12 faster This pair2:58 faster -
Tenerife4 Sep 2026Individual Pro · Men1:18:35116/271Beat 57%
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Copenhagen13 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:12:06 PB133/365Beat 64%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Relay · Men1:19:5843/51Beat 16%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:50:011319/1463Beat 10%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:09:00 PB62/116Beat 47%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Relay · Men56:4511/54Beat 80%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:2126/269Beat 90%
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Katowice22 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men2:02:07728/757Beat 4%
↑ 105 days after Manchester 2024 18:58 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:49 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:09 faster for everyone: 18:58 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:09 faster This athlete16:49 slower -
Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:45:18 PB1091/1206Beat 10%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024 2:11 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:03 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:14 faster for everyone, so 2:11 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:14 faster This athlete2:03 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:47:211694/1916Beat 12%