Progress against the field
From Sydney 2024 to Sydney 2026, Caitlin Vella got 6:56 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:09 quicker, so 12:05 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 362 days between Sydney 2025 and Sydney 2026, still ended 3:12 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.
Every race
5 races · 4 events
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Sydney1 Jul 2026Doubles Open · Women1:53:11 PB1217/1256Beat 3%
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Sydney1 Jul 2026Individual Open · Women2:22:48 PB500/509Beat 2%
↑ 362 days after Sydney 2025 3:12 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:02 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:50 faster for everyone, so 3:12 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:50 faster This athlete8:02 faster -
Sydney4 Jul 2025Individual Open · Women2:30:501037/1049Beat 1%
↑ 342 days after Sydney 2024 3:44 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:44 better than the field: 4:03 faster on the clock, against 0:19 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:19 faster This athlete4:03 faster -
Brisbane1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed2:08:12 PB882/887Beat 1%
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Sydney27 Jul 2024Individual Open · Women2:34:53361/363Beat 1%