Progress against the field
From London Excel 2025 to Cardiff 2026, Stewart Marden and Clare Hicks got 2:01 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:47 quicker, so 3:48 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 Doubles Open · Mixed, with Clare Hicks, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
12 races · 12 events
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Barcelona14 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:36:50547/615Beat 11%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:38:34313/361Beat 13%
↑ 49 days after Glasgow 2026, with Clare Hicks 1:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:37 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:07 faster for everyone, so 1:30 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:07 faster This pair3:37 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:42:11394/460Beat 14%
↑ 97 days after London Excel 2025, with Clare Hicks 0:31 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 0:20 slower for everyone and the clock still says 0:11 faster: 0:31 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:20 slower This pair0:11 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:42:221283/1372Beat 7%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:44:13814/870Beat 6%
↑ 36 days after Birmingham 2025, with Clare Hicks 1:50 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 1:01 slower for everyone and the clock still says 0:49 faster: 1:50 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:01 slower This pair0:49 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:45:02834/889Beat 6%
↑ 26 days after Oslo 2025, with Clare Hicks 1:31 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:43 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:14 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:31 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:14 faster This pair1:43 faster -
Oslo26 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:46:45328/344Beat 5%
↑ 196 days after Copenhagen 2025, with Clare Hicks 6:33 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:33 behind the field: 8:27 slower on the clock, against 1:54 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:54 slower This pair8:27 slower -
Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:38:18701/742Beat 6%
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Vienna22 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:35:47 PB575/638Beat 10%
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Stockholm7 Dec 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:43:30295/317Beat 7%
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Paris9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:40:24612/664Beat 8%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:46:46453/494Beat 8%