Progress against the field
Between Auckland 2026 and Sydney 2026, Duncan Macdonald kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:56 quicker, so 5:58 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 Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 5 events
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Sydney1 Jul 2026Individual Open · Men1:31:31 PB752/1122Beat 33%
↑ 153 days after Auckland 2026 0:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:58 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:56 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →5:56 faster This athlete5:58 faster -
Brisbane9 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:09 PB400/836Beat 52%
↑ 70 days after Auckland 2026, with Beth Thompson 4:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:57 better than the field: 10:23 faster on the clock, against 5:26 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:26 faster This pair10:23 faster -
Auckland29 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:32304/542Beat 44%
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Auckland29 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:37:29507/763Beat 34%
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Yokohama9 Aug 2025Individual Open · Men1:46:04506/718Beat 30%
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MelbourneDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:34:261522/2118Beat 28%