Progress against the field
Vicki Walker and Michelle Smith have dropped 2:52 behind the field from Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
The clock says 1:27 faster, but the races themselves got 4:19 quicker for everyone.
189 days between Birmingham 2025 and Cardiff 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 10:52 behind 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 Doubles Open · Women, with Michelle Smith, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 9 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:05:04 PB9/680Beat 99%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Michelle Smith 8:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:39 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:39 faster for everyone, so 8:00 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This pair9:39 faster -
Jakarta27 Jun 2026Doubles Open · Mixed59:43 PB3/1011Beat 100%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:01:569/293Beat 97%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Women1:14:43117/862Beat 86%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025, with Michelle Smith 10:52 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:52 behind the field: 8:12 slower on the clock, against 2:40 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:40 faster This pair8:12 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Women1:17:37283/1155Beat 76%
↑ 438 days after Manchester 2024, with Phoebe Barker 8:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:10 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:59 faster for everyone: 8:09 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:59 faster This pair7:10 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women1:06:3121/1111Beat 98%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Women1:10:2745/486Beat 91%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Women1:10:5357/973Beat 94%
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Berlin20 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:45102/480Beat 79%