Progress against the field
From Madrid 2025 to Cardiff 2026, the field gained 3:22 on Emma Walmsley.
Over the same races everyone got 4:31 quicker, so 1:09 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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
12 races · 12 events
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Valencia17 Oct 2026Individual Open · Women1:06:05 PB3/539Beat 99%
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Oslo26 Sep 2026Individual Open · Women1:07:319/576Beat 98%
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Riga30 May 2026Individual Open · Women1:10:5410/377Beat 97%
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Lisboa1 May 2026Individual Open · Women1:11:3213/419Beat 97%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:12:2315/389Beat 96%
↑ 98 days after Manchester 2026 4:18 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:18 behind the field: 0:47 slower on the clock, against 3:31 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 faster This athlete0:47 slower -
Bologna4 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:07:54 PB17/81Beat 79%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:2837/500Beat 93%
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Katowice21 Feb 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:02:05 PB44/488Beat 91%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Women1:11:369/268Beat 97%
↑ 55 days after Madrid 2025 0:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:56 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:00 faster for everyone, so 0:56 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:00 faster This athlete1:56 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Women1:13:3221/697Beat 97%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Women1:06:36 PB46/1160Beat 96%
↑ 112 days after Manchester 2025, with Deborah Norbury 0:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:24 better than the field: 6:43 faster on the clock, against 6:19 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →6:19 faster This pair6:43 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Women1:13:19134/857Beat 84%