Progress against the field
Gareth Francis has dropped 4:06 behind the field from Madrid 2024 to Berlin 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 9:50 quicker, so 5:44 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
20 races · 16 events
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Geneva9 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:15:18194/478Beat 59%
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Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Open · Mixed58:58232/825Beat 72%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed57:295/332Beat 99%
↑ 155 days after Dublin 2025, with Lisa Hanley 3:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:09 behind the field: 0:11 slower on the clock, against 2:58 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:58 faster This pair0:11 slower -
Katowice21 Feb 2026Individual Pro · Men1:11:29 PB134/317Beat 58%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men58:4711/344Beat 97%
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Stockholm18 Dec 2025Individual Pro · MenDNF—
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed57:18 PB4/401Beat 99%
↑ 21 days after Birmingham 2025, with Lisa Hanley 0:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:48 better than the field: 2:17 faster on the clock, against 1:29 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:29 faster This pair2:17 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Relay · Men54:5112/32Beat 63%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Pro · Men59:26 PB17/116Beat 85%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed59:3515/889Beat 98%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:07:28 PB194/1851Beat 90%
↑ 56 days after Malaga 2025 1:41 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:39 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:20 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:41 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:20 faster This athlete1:39 faster -
Barcelona25 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:17110/774Beat 86%
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Malaga21 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:07157/966Beat 84%
↑ 146 days after Madrid 2024 2:25 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:05 faster on the clock, yet the race was 6:30 faster for everyone, so 2:25 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:30 faster This athlete4:05 faster -
Katowice22 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Men59:3119/256Beat 93%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:04:047/344Beat 98%
↑ 216 days after Malaga 2024, with Ciara Murphy 3:00 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:21 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 6:21 faster for everyone, which leaves this 3:00 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:21 faster This pair3:21 faster -
Dublin15 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men58:34 PB39/638Beat 94%
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Madrid26 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:11:41272/706Beat 62%
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Madrid26 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:13:12159/1066Beat 85%
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Milan19 Oct 2024Doubles Open · MixedDNF—
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Malaga13 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:2522/278Beat 92%