Progress against the field
Between Cologne 2025 and Stockholm 2025, Jack Lightburn pulled 6:23 ahead of the field.
The clock says 10:27 faster, but the races themselves got 4:04 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Cologne 2025 → Oslo 2025: 4:04 on the field in 169 days.
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
8 races · 8 events
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Istanbul1 Aug 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:36124/515Beat 76%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:19246/794Beat 69%
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Stockholm18 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:53194/1315Beat 85%
↑ 14 days after London Excel 2025 0:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:24 behind the field: 0:12 slower on the clock, against 0:12 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:12 faster This athlete0:12 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:41 PB416/2771Beat 85%
↑ 69 days after Oslo 2025 2:43 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:35 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:52 faster for everyone, so 2:43 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:52 faster This athlete4:35 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:20488/1099Beat 56%
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Oslo26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:16215/935Beat 77%
↑ 169 days after Cologne 2025 4:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:04 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:00 faster for everyone, so 4:04 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:00 faster This athlete6:04 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:03 PB204/1325Beat 85%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:20458/1182Beat 61%