Progress against the field
Daire Plunkett has gained 2:31 on the field from Birmingham 2025 to Lisboa 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 2:03 quicker, so 4:34 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
11 races · 10 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men58:27 PB67/1035Beat 94%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:00:07 PB13/677Beat 98%
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Izmir19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed58:352/140Beat 99%
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Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed58:1111/530Beat 98%
↑ 57 days after Mechelen 2026, with Sarah Farrell 0:48 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:01 slower on the clock, but the race was 0:49 slower for everyone, so this was 0:48 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:49 slower This pair0:01 slower -
Lisboa1 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:00:319/417Beat 98%
↑ 134 days after Stockholm 2025 1:59 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 0:26 slower for everyone and the clock still says 1:33 faster: 1:59 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:26 slower This athlete1:33 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed58:10 PB3/424Beat 99%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed58:478/460Beat 98%
↑ 285 days after Cardiff 2025, with Sarah Farrell 2:16 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:46 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:30 faster for everyone, so 2:16 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:30 faster This pair2:46 faster -
Stockholm18 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:02:0419/1315Beat 99%
↑ 36 days after Dublin 2025 0:54 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:14 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:20 slower for everyone: 0:54 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:20 slower This athlete1:14 slower -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:00:5012/898Beat 99%
↑ 21 days after Birmingham 2025 1:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:26 better than the field: 4:15 faster on the clock, against 2:49 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 faster This athlete4:15 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:05:0571/1600Beat 96%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:01:3313/470Beat 97%