Progress against the field
Between London 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Darren Hancock lost 2:18 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 8:27 quicker, so 6:09 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from London 2025 → Cardiff 2025: 2:42 in 27 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
27 races · 19 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men55:56 PB49/476Beat 90%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:02:59 PB79/693Beat 89%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:00:22 PB15/677Beat 98%
↑ 198 days after Malaga 2026 0:23 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:23 better than the field: 0:44 faster on the clock, against 0:21 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:21 faster This athlete0:44 faster -
Geneva9 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:04:4652/478Beat 89%
↑ 9 days after Bordeaux 2026 0:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:40 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:16 slower for everyone: 0:24 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:16 slower This athlete0:40 slower -
Bordeaux30 Sep 2026Individual Pro · Men1:04:0663/512Beat 88%
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Rome23 Sep 2026Doubles Pro · Men56:2734/292Beat 88%
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Rome23 Sep 2026Individual Pro · Men1:05:4448/362Beat 87%
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Pro · Men1:07:4482/439Beat 81%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men58:2750/302Beat 83%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:06:5175/533Beat 86%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men54:282/494Beat 100%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:01:0616/1036Beat 99%
↑ 23 days after EMEA London Olympia 2026 1:46 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:29 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:17 faster for everyone: 1:46 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:17 faster This athlete0:29 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men56:1015/813Beat 98%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men56:1432/484Beat 93%
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EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:00:37129/958Beat 87%
↑ 110 days after London Excel 2025 1:13 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:10 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:23 faster for everyone, so 1:13 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:23 faster This athlete0:10 faster -
Poznan13 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men58:2235/540Beat 94%
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Poznan13 Dec 2025Doubles Pro · Men57:5518/157Beat 89%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:00:4735/2771Beat 99%
↑ 54 days after Geneva 2025 1:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:42 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:33 faster for everyone, so 1:09 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:33 faster This athlete4:42 faster -
Shanghai22 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men53:37 PB2/388Beat 100%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men56:317/189Beat 96%
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Geneva11 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:05:2953/1386Beat 96%
↑ 15 days after Rome 2025 1:31 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:31 behind the field: 0:32 slower on the clock, against 0:59 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:59 faster This athlete0:32 slower -
Rome26 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men58:2131/775Beat 96%
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Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:04:5775/1367Beat 95%
↑ 119 days after Cardiff 2025 2:02 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:02 behind the field: 0:08 slower on the clock, against 1:54 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:54 faster This athlete0:08 slower -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:04:4955/1401Beat 96%
↑ 27 days after London 2025 2:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:42 faster on the clock in a race that was 1:00 slower for everyone: 2:42 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:00 slower This athlete1:42 faster -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:06:31147/1917Beat 92%
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Toulouse8 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:17222/1789Beat 88%
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London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:18:33496/1637Beat 70%