Progress against the field
Between Rome 2025 and Cardiff 2026, Chris Ward lost 1:39 to the field.
The clock says 1:00 faster, but the races themselves got 2:39 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was London Excel 2025 → Manchester 2026: 5:07 on the field in 48 days.
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 Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
19 races · 13 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:01:32 PB172/476Beat 64%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:34:43965/1159Beat 17%
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Rome23 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:47799/1051Beat 24%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:18:58309/430Beat 28%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:15:05213/533Beat 60%
↑ 98 days after Manchester 2026 3:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:01 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:23 faster for everyone: 3:24 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:23 faster This athlete1:01 slower -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:44 PB168/460Beat 64%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:18658/1198Beat 45%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Relay · Mixed1:14:3136/71Beat 49%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:10:13 PB141/404Beat 65%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:14:0461/130Beat 53%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025 5:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 2:49 slower for everyone and the clock still says 2:18 faster: 5:07 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 slower This athlete2:18 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:11:05887/1815Beat 51%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:16:22249/462Beat 46%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 5:36 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:41 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:55 faster for everyone: 5:36 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:55 faster This athlete3:41 slower -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:23:46440/789Beat 44%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:12:41 PB61/137Beat 56%
↑ 26 days after Rome 2025 2:14 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:24 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:10 faster for everyone, so 2:14 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:10 faster This athlete3:24 faster -
Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Pro · Men1:16:05126/276Beat 54%
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Riga31 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:44 PB72/440Beat 84%
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Warsaw12 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:23:10198/288Beat 31%
↑ 31 days after Glasgow 2025, with Fiona Latham 0:20 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:23 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:43 faster for everyone, so 0:20 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:43 faster This pair3:23 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:33576/861Beat 33%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:16:44467/638Beat 27%