Progress against the field
Between Sydney 2025 and Sydney 2026, STEPHEN COOPER and Malcolm Thorne lost 2:09 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:49 quicker, so 4:40 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 209 days between Sydney 2025 and Auckland 2026, cost 2:30 on 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 Doubles Open · Men, with Malcolm Thorne, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 3 events
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Sydney1 Jul 2026Doubles Open · Men1:05:21 PB151/598Beat 75%
↑ 153 days after Auckland 2026, with Malcolm Thorne 0:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:31 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:10 faster for everyone, so 0:21 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →5:10 faster This pair5:31 faster -
Auckland29 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:30154/542Beat 72%
↑ 209 days after Sydney 2025, with Alexandra Cookson 1:53 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:11 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:18 slower for everyone: 1:53 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:18 slower This pair4:11 slower -
Auckland29 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:10:5283/320Beat 74%
↑ 209 days after Sydney 2025, with Malcolm Thorne 2:30 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:51 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:39 faster for everyone: 2:30 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This pair0:51 slower -
Sydney4 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:01406/1020Beat 60%
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Sydney4 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:15:19 PB356/1233Beat 71%