Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2025 to Cardiff 2026, Ben Read has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 5:15 quicker, so 5:14 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Glasgow 2026 → Cardiff 2026: 4:56 in 49 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
12 races · 8 events
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New York28 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed2:01:45531/575Beat 8%
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New York28 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:20:1376/427Beat 82%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:19:20189/466Beat 59%
↑ 49 days after Glasgow 2026 4:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:44 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:48 faster for everyone, so 4:56 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:48 faster This athlete7:44 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed2:03:41491/500Beat 2%
↑ 49 days after Manchester 2026, with Charlotte Searles 16:57 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:57 behind the field: 14:32 slower on the clock, against 2:25 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:25 faster This pair14:32 slower -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:27:04345/595Beat 42%
↑ 140 days after Birmingham 2025 4:57 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:57 behind the field: 2:30 slower on the clock, against 2:27 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:27 faster This athlete2:30 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:49:09803/824Beat 3%
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Poznan13 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:48:33559/581Beat 4%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:15106/312Beat 66%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:24:34245/523Beat 53%
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Auckland1 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:5460/523Beat 89%
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MelbourneDate unknownDoubles Open · Mixed1:03:50 PB85/769Beat 89%
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MelbourneDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:12:38 PB371/2118Beat 83%