Progress against the field
Adam Smith has dropped 22:33 behind the field from Birmingham 2022 to Manchester 2026.
The clock says 12:07 slower, but the races themselves got 10:26 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 741 days between Birmingham 2022 and Birmingham 2024, still ended 9:19 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
24 races · 16 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:22:54843/1035Beat 19%
↑ 221 days after London Olympia 2026, with Pierce Coyne 1:58 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:58 behind the field: 1:11 slower on the clock, against 0:47 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:47 faster This pair1:11 slower -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:41:18521/586Beat 11%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:00122/560Beat 78%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:24:46267/312Beat 14%
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Valencia17 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:28146/743Beat 80%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:41:04385/419Beat 8%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:21:43616/813Beat 24%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:51 PB63/203Beat 69%
↑ 62 days after Manchester 2026, with Charli Smith 0:43 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:43 better than the field: 5:13 faster on the clock, against 4:30 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:30 faster This pair5:13 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:40:18182/213Beat 15%
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Las Vegas20 Feb 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:31548/2139Beat 74%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:04345/824Beat 58%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025, with Charli Smith 1:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:07 better than the field: 2:08 faster on the clock, against 1:01 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:01 faster This pair2:08 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:23:02289/398Beat 27%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:50:13466/529Beat 12%
↑ 315 days after Glasgow 2025 23:47 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
21:55 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:52 faster for everyone: 23:47 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:52 faster This athlete21:55 slower -
Poznan13 Dec 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:12:02 PB114/157Beat 27%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:21520/1099Beat 53%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:12408/889Beat 54%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:04 PB253/1010Beat 75%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:181007/1588Beat 37%
↑ 47 days after Manchester 2025 11:37 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:23 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:14 faster for everyone: 11:37 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:14 faster This athlete8:23 slower -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:55 PB518/1191Beat 57%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2024 3:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:24 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:52 faster for everyone, so 3:32 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:52 faster This athlete7:24 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:27:19443/816Beat 46%
↑ 741 days after Birmingham 2022 9:19 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:47 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:28 faster for everyone, so 9:19 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:28 faster This athlete10:47 faster -
Copenhagen23 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men1:08:46128/291Beat 56%
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London26 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Men1:18:00698/1003Beat 30%
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Dublin28 Oct 2023Doubles Open · Men1:26:16295/350Beat 16%
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Birmingham15 Oct 2022Individual Open · Men1:38:06726/960Beat 24%