Progress against the field
From Anaheim 2025 to Las Vegas 2026, Ellise Smolenyak has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 6:23 quicker, so 6:23 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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New York28 May 2026Individual Pro · Women1:24:08 PB51/182Beat 72%
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Las Vegas20 Feb 2026Individual Open · Women1:12:33 PB48/1796Beat 97%
↑ 70 days after Anaheim 2025 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:23 faster on the clock, and the race was 6:23 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →6:23 faster This athlete6:23 faster -
Anaheim12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Women1:18:5695/1383Beat 93%