Progress against the field
Between Tenerife 2026 and Birmingham 2026, Adrian Ward pulled 8:45 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:23 quicker, so 15:08 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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 Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 8 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:21:42 PB446/693Beat 36%
↑ 57 days after Tenerife 2026 8:45 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:08 faster on the clock, and the race was 6:23 faster for everyone, so 8:45 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →6:23 faster This athlete15:08 faster -
Tenerife4 Sep 2026Individual Pro · Men1:36:50215/271Beat 21%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:25:43333/445Beat 25%
↑ 132 days after Dublin 2025 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:08 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:08 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →4:08 faster This athlete4:08 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:29:51101/115Beat 12%
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London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:08787/1917Beat 59%
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Toulouse8 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:441116/1789Beat 38%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:41:24 PB456/492Beat 7%
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Abu DhabiDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:17:59 PB118/577Beat 80%