Progress against the field
Between Madrid 2025 and Manchester 2026, Darren Roberts lost 3:40 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 0:54 quicker, so 2:46 slower 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
15 races · 13 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:03:34 PB229/476Beat 52%
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Rome23 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men57:201/317Beat 100%
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New York28 May 2026Individual Pro · Men1:11:1137/273Beat 86%
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Lisboa1 May 2026Doubles Open · Men56:504/267Beat 99%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Relay · Men59:0622/69Beat 68%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:07:3346/529Beat 91%
↑ 55 days after Madrid 2025 3:40 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:46 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:54 faster for everyone: 3:40 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:54 faster This athlete2:46 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men56:5550/2102Beat 98%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Relay · Mixed58:562/43Beat 95%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:04:47 PB52/1361Beat 96%
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Oslo26 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men57:2311/530Beat 98%
↑ 198 days after Glasgow 2025, with Craig Lewis 1:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:08 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:02 faster for everyone, so 1:06 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:02 faster This pair2:08 faster -
Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men56:20 PB4/300Beat 99%
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Malaga21 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:1834/372Beat 91%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men59:3178/1105Beat 93%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:16 PB88/733Beat 88%
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BudapestDate unknownIndividual Pro · Men1:07:24 PB59/210Beat 72%