Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026, David Catterson has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 6:44 quicker, so 6:47 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
204 days between Birmingham 2025 and Barcelona 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 5:23 better than 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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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:47:03611/693Beat 12%
↑ 170 days after Barcelona 2026 5:20 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:04 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:16 faster for everyone: 5:20 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:16 faster This athlete4:04 slower -
Barcelona14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:42:59 PB559/643Beat 13%
↑ 204 days after Birmingham 2025 5:23 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:51 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:28 faster for everyone, so 5:23 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →5:28 faster This athlete10:51 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:53:501473/1600Beat 8%