Progress against the field
Tim Cowell and Alex Macarthur have gained 9:05 on the field from Madrid 2024 to Barcelona 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 8:37 quicker, so 17:42 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 224 days between Glasgow 2025 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 1:38 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
7 races · 6 events
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Barcelona14 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:21214/361Beat 41%
↑ 204 days after Birmingham 2025, with Alex Macarthur 2:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:09 behind the field: 1:53 slower on the clock, against 0:16 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:16 faster This pair1:53 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:09:54 PB358/794Beat 55%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Relay · Men1:07:1142/69Beat 39%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:11:261055/2102Beat 50%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:12:28598/1099Beat 46%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025, with Alex Macarthur 1:38 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:29 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:51 faster for everyone, so 1:38 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 faster This pair3:29 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:15:57694/1105Beat 37%
↑ 137 days after Madrid 2024, with Alex Macarthur 9:36 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:36 better than the field: 16:06 faster on the clock, against 6:30 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →6:30 faster This pair16:06 faster -
Madrid26 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:32:03663/706Beat 6%