Progress against the field
From Toronto 2025 to Toronto 2026, brian Poynter got 3:03 faster than the field.
The clock says 9:20 faster, but the races themselves got 6:17 quicker for everyone.
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
5 races · 4 events
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Toronto1 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:28:25 PB429/1135Beat 62%
↑ 363 days after Toronto 2025 3:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:20 faster on the clock, and the race was 6:17 faster for everyone, so 3:03 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →6:17 faster This athlete9:20 faster -
Toronto1 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:35:15 PB294/404Beat 27%
↑ 140 days after Ottawa 2026 24:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
24:34 better than the field: 28:51 faster on the clock, against 4:17 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:17 faster This athlete28:51 faster -
Ottawa14 May 2026Individual Pro · Men2:04:06197/213Beat 8%
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Toronto3 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:37:45301/507Beat 41%
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Toronto5 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:54:03 PB241/254Beat 5%