Progress against the field
Matthew Ashenden has dropped 0:57 behind the field from London Excel 2025 to Barcelona 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 2:18 quicker, so 1:21 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:15:51 PB333/600Beat 45%
↑ 701 days after London 2024, with Andrew Ashenden 0:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:51 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:47 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:47 faster This pair2:51 faster -
Barcelona14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:27:36 PB384/643Beat 40%
↑ 161 days after London Excel 2025 0:57 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:21 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:18 faster for everyone, so 0:57 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:18 faster This athlete1:21 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:571782/2771Beat 36%
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London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:18:42338/444Beat 24%