Progress against the field
Lydia Cope has dropped 3:00 behind the field from Berlin 2025 to Berlin 2026.
The clock says 1:31 slower, but the races themselves got 1:29 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 180 days between Berlin 2025 and Dublin 2025, still ended 7:26 ahead of the field.
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 · 10 events
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Valencia17 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:2035/302Beat 88%
↑ 169 days after Lisboa 2026, with Andrew Hanbidge 2:32 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:16 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:16 faster for everyone: 2:32 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:16 faster This pair0:16 slower -
Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Women1:20:3459/889Beat 93%
↑ 70 days after Copenhagen 2026 1:02 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:17 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:19 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:02 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:19 faster This athlete0:17 faster -
Lisboa1 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:0490/696Beat 87%
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Copenhagen13 Mar 2026Individual Open · Women1:20:5128/208Beat 87%
↑ 121 days after Dublin 2025 9:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:39 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:15 slower for everyone: 9:24 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:15 slower This athlete9:39 slower -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:3678/401Beat 81%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Women1:11:12 PB19/423Beat 96%
↑ 180 days after Berlin 2025 7:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:51 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:25 faster for everyone, so 7:26 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:25 faster This athlete7:51 faster -
Oslo26 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:0196/344Beat 72%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Women1:09:10 PB104/1160Beat 91%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:19:03128/590Beat 78%
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Cologne10 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:32 PB77/921Beat 92%
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Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:37213/742Beat 71%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:15:49182/492Beat 63%