Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026, Jamie King has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
The clock says 6:39 faster, but the races themselves got 6:30 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 185 days between Cardiff 2026 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 1:24 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
8 races · 8 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:29:29 PB863/1442Beat 40%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026 1:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:24 better than the field: 3:07 faster on the clock, against 1:43 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:43 faster This athlete3:07 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:32:36618/913Beat 32%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025 4:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:09 behind the field: 2:24 slower on the clock, against 1:45 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:45 faster This athlete2:24 slower -
Vienna6 Feb 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:54 PB361/961Beat 62%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:12:06 PB430/794Beat 46%
↑ 236 days after Cardiff 2025, with George Mitchell 15:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 0:30 slower for everyone and the clock still says 14:47 faster: 15:17 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:30 slower This pair14:47 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:30:121850/2771Beat 33%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 2:54 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:56 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:02 faster for everyone, so 2:54 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This athlete5:56 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:25:04480/789Beat 39%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:36:081180/1600Beat 26%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:26:53522/563Beat 7%