Progress against the field
Between Toronto 2024 and Ottawa 2026, Andrew Smith pulled 3:01 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:29 quicker, so 8:30 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 363 days between Toronto 2024 and Toronto 2025, still ended 4:47 ahead of 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Ottawa14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:36:10 PB559/866Beat 36%
↑ 223 days after Toronto 2025 1:46 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:36 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:22 faster for everyone, so 1:46 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:22 faster This athlete3:36 faster -
Toronto3 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:39:46742/1264Beat 41%
↑ 363 days after Toronto 2024 4:47 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:54 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:07 faster for everyone, so 4:47 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:07 faster This athlete4:54 faster -
Toronto5 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:44:40308/416Beat 26%