Progress against the field
Natalie Sauber and Matthew Messina have dropped 1:44 behind the field from London Excel 2025 to Berlin 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 0:40 quicker, so 1:04 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from London Excel 2025 → Manchester 2026: 2:24 in 48 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 Doubles Open · Mixed, with Matthew Messina, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 9 events
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New York28 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:3132/364Beat 91%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:01167/960Beat 83%
↑ 121 days after Manchester 2026, with Matthew Messina 4:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:20 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:48 faster for everyone: 4:08 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:48 faster This pair2:20 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:10 PB35/414Beat 92%
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EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Women1:13:32 PB153/507Beat 70%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:41183/824Beat 78%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025, with Matthew Messina 2:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 1:08 slower for everyone and the clock still says 1:16 faster: 2:24 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:08 slower This pair1:16 faster -
Frankfurt12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Women1:14:4548/1071Beat 96%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:57366/1474Beat 75%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:19:48125/829Beat 85%
↑ 172 days after London 2025 15:35 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
17:13 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:38 faster for everyone, so 15:35 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:38 faster This athlete17:13 faster -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:37:01864/1368Beat 37%