Progress against the field
Joao Romao has gained 5:20 on the field from London Excel 2025 to Lisboa 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 3:43 quicker, so 9:03 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Turin 2026 → Lisboa 2026: 5:30 in 91 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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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:12:43 PB167/677Beat 75%
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Lisboa1 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:23:24416/887Beat 53%
↑ 91 days after Turin 2026 5:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:30 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:00 faster for everyone, so 5:30 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:00 faster This athlete7:30 faster -
Turin30 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:30:54390/588Beat 34%
↑ 57 days after London Excel 2025 0:10 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:33 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:43 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:10 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:43 faster This athlete1:33 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:32:272055/2779Beat 26%