Progress against the field
From Dublin 2025 to Lisboa 2026, John Gaughan got 3:46 faster than the field.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 3:54 faster on the clock is close to the whole story.
The biggest step was London Excel 2025 → Lisboa 2026: 3:16 on the field in 148 days.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Lisboa1 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:58 PB61/417Beat 85%
↑ 148 days after London Excel 2025 3:16 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:55 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:21 slower for everyone: 3:16 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:21 slower This athlete2:55 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:47 PB43/280Beat 85%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:53635/2779Beat 77%
↑ 22 days after Dublin 2025 0:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:30 better than the field: 0:59 faster on the clock, against 0:29 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:29 faster This athlete0:59 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:52234/898Beat 74%