Progress against the field
Between Madrid 2024 and Valencia 2026, David Martin kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 9:22 quicker, so 9:14 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
397 days between Madrid 2024 and Madrid 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 8:45 better than 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 · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 7 events
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Valencia17 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:19 PB461/743Beat 38%
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Valencia17 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:34220/898Beat 76%
↑ 324 days after Madrid 2025 8:53 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:37 slower on the clock in a race that was 6:16 faster for everyone: 8:53 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:16 faster This athlete2:37 slower -
Tenerife4 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:24:14132/198Beat 33%
↑ 141 days after Malaga 2026, with Iván Hernández 9:36 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:36 behind the field: 15:03 slower on the clock, against 5:27 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:27 slower This pair15:03 slower -
Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:09:11243/607Beat 60%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Open · MenDNF—
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Bilbao7 Feb 2026Relay · Mixed1:18:1616/25Beat 36%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:57 PB196/1361Beat 86%
↑ 397 days after Madrid 2024 8:45 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:51 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:06 faster for everyone, so 8:45 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:06 faster This athlete11:51 faster -
Madrid26 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:22:48423/1066Beat 60%
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Madrid19 Dec 2021Doubles Open · Men1:02:00 PB12/132Beat 91%