Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2025 and Manchester 2026, James Rothwell pulled 4:05 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:52 quicker, so 5:57 faster on the clock looks better 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
6 races · 6 events
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:09:54 PB118/371Beat 68%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:33:37 PB360/529Beat 32%
↑ 315 days after Glasgow 2025 4:05 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:57 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:52 faster for everyone, so 4:05 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:52 faster This athlete5:57 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Relay · Men1:02:0523/54Beat 57%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:39:341316/1588Beat 17%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:10:36367/719Beat 49%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024, with Daniel Cox 1:09 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:25 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:34 faster for everyone, so 1:09 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:34 faster This pair0:25 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:11:01204/441Beat 54%