Progress against the field
Sam Taylor has gained 55:21 on the field from Birmingham 2024 to Birmingham 2025.
The clock says 59:39 faster, but the races themselves got 4:18 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 Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
26 races · 21 events
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Barcelona14 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:29:45491/564Beat 13%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Relay · Men52:202/53Beat 96%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men56:43 PB9/522Beat 98%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:16:02256/302Beat 15%
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Warsaw16 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men59:35 PB40/556Beat 93%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:33:54300/332Beat 10%
↑ 155 days after Dublin 2025, with Aoife Kierans 3:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:04 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:58 faster for everyone, so 3:06 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:58 faster This pair6:04 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men55:32 PB24/484Beat 95%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Pro · MenDNF—
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:21896/2102Beat 57%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:03:23332/1815Beat 82%
↑ 188 days after Cardiff 2025, with Conor Miles 0:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:51 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:17 faster for everyone, so 0:34 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:17 faster This pair2:51 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:45 PB405/1372Beat 71%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:39:58522/559Beat 7%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:13:40665/1177Beat 44%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:01:2612/156Beat 92%
↑ 362 days after Birmingham 2024 55:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
55:21 better than the field: 59:39 faster on the clock, against 4:18 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:18 faster This athlete59:39 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:1471/269Beat 74%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:13:21594/1010Beat 41%
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Barcelona25 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:33290/774Beat 63%
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Warsaw12 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:02530/768Beat 31%
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Toulouse8 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:03:46 PB50/1789Beat 97%
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London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:14:25544/984Beat 45%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:17:21544/719Beat 24%
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Poznan2 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:11:33124/265Beat 53%
↑ 160 days after Gdansk 2024, with James Spendlove 5:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:29 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:23 faster for everyone, so 5:06 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →4:23 faster This pair9:29 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Pro · Men2:01:05201/208Beat 3%
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Gdansk26 May 2024Doubles Open · Men1:21:0299/133Beat 26%
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Vienna - European Championship9 Feb 2024Doubles Open · Men1:27:26188/236Beat 20%
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Birmingham15 Oct 2022Doubles Open · Men1:18:02253/358Beat 29%