Progress against the field
From Malaga 2026 to Berlin 2026, Paul Hennessy has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 2:03 slower, so 1:55 slower on the clock looks worse 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
11 races · 9 events
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Gdansk10 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men56:2513/508Beat 97%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Men57:356/308Beat 98%
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:06:0442/1097Beat 96%
↑ 36 days after Malaga 2026 0:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:55 slower on the clock, and the race was 2:03 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:03 slower This athlete1:55 slower -
Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men56:21 PB5/494Beat 99%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:04:09 PB63/1036Beat 94%
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Vienna6 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:05:1141/1311Beat 97%
↑ 266 days after Berlin 2025 4:51 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:32 faster on the clock in a race that was 1:19 slower for everyone: 4:51 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:19 slower This athlete3:32 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:12:57 PB54/115Beat 53%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:43266/1851Beat 86%
↑ 182 days after Dublin 2024 0:59 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:59 better than the field: 5:39 faster on the clock, against 4:40 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:40 faster This athlete5:39 faster -
Dublin15 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:14:22270/1221Beat 78%
↑ 216 days after Malaga 2024 1:08 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:49 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:57 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:08 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:57 faster This athlete1:49 faster -
Malaga13 Apr 2024Individual Open · Men1:16:11166/547Beat 70%
↑ 168 days after Dublin 2023 3:50 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:03 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 8:53 faster for everyone, which leaves this 3:50 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →8:53 faster This athlete5:03 faster -
Dublin28 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:21:14140/777Beat 82%