Progress against the field
From Paris 2024 to Birmingham 2025, Alex Percival got 3:50 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:58 quicker, so 8:48 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Paris 2024 → Glasgow 2025: 4:26 in 123 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
21 races · 18 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:08:41328/476Beat 31%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Gareth Abreu 1:54 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:23 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:17 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:54 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:17 faster This pair0:23 faster -
Geneva9 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:21:29276/478Beat 42%
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Riga30 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:05:2682/423Beat 81%
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Riga30 May 2026Individual Pro · Men1:22:15149/226Beat 34%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:09:04178/302Beat 41%
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Paris GP23 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:06:11 PB170/398Beat 57%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:19:44 PB269/445Beat 40%
↑ 13 days after Glasgow 2026 3:31 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:31 better than the field: 5:12 faster on the clock, against 1:41 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:41 faster This athlete5:12 faster -
EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:34 PB209/455Beat 54%
↑ 62 days after Manchester 2026, with Gareth Abreu 3:07 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:43 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 4:50 faster for everyone, which leaves this 3:07 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:50 faster This pair1:43 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:24:5696/134Beat 28%
↑ 49 days after Manchester 2026 0:32 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:53 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:25 faster for everyone, so 0:32 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:25 faster This athlete1:53 faster -
Vienna6 Feb 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:06:44118/355Beat 67%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:04:17181/794Beat 77%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:26:49160/193Beat 17%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:07:5157/116Beat 51%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:30313/1821Beat 83%
↑ 26 days after Oslo 2025 1:11 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:11 behind the field: 0:25 slower on the clock, against 0:46 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:46 faster This athlete0:25 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:07:3951/102Beat 50%
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Oslo26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:05136/935Beat 86%
↑ 119 days after Cardiff 2025 1:59 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:59 behind the field: 1:17 slower on the clock, against 0:42 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:42 faster This athlete1:17 slower -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:09:5453/131Beat 60%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:48 PB81/639Beat 87%
↑ 79 days after Glasgow 2025 2:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:04 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:30 faster for everyone, so 2:34 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:30 faster This athlete3:04 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:52377/1588Beat 76%
↑ 123 days after Paris 2024 4:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:26 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:00 faster for everyone, so 4:26 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:00 faster This athlete7:26 faster -
Paris9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:21:18579/1585Beat 64%
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Rimini1 Jun 2024Individual Open · Men1:28:24552/1156Beat 52%