Progress against the field
From Riga 2026 to Birmingham 2026, Lewis Paton got 4:24 faster than the field.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 4:18 faster on the clock is close to the whole story.
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
8 races · 8 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:00:22 PB12/693Beat 98%
↑ 154 days after Riga 2026 4:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:18 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:06 slower for everyone: 4:24 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:06 slower This athlete4:18 faster -
Riga30 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:04:4031/882Beat 97%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:06:1230/642Beat 95%
↑ 153 days after Birmingham 2025 1:39 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:24 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:03 faster for everyone, so 1:39 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:03 faster This athlete3:24 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:04:09175/794Beat 78%
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Stockholm18 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:52 PB28/382Beat 93%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:36180/1600Beat 89%
↑ 26 days after Oslo 2025 0:41 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:05 faster on the clock, yet the race was 0:46 faster for everyone, so 0:41 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:46 faster This athlete0:05 faster -
Oslo26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:4149/319Beat 85%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:50191/1325Beat 86%