Progress against the field
Sam Melville has dropped 2:01 behind the field from Berlin 2025 to Berlin 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 3:27 slower, so 5:28 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:12:59177/1097Beat 84%
↑ 121 days after Manchester 2026 2:01 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:01 behind the field: 1:46 slower on the clock, against 0:15 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:15 faster This athlete1:46 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:11:1376/529Beat 86%
↑ 250 days after Berlin 2025 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:42 slower on the clock, and the race was 3:42 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:42 slower This athlete3:42 slower -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:07:31 PB198/1851Beat 89%