Progress against the field
Darren Smith has dropped 15:34 behind the field from Glasgow 2024 to Lisboa 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 11:31 quicker, so 4:03 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 237 days between Glasgow 2024 and Birmingham 2024, cost 1:52 on 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
8 races · 8 events
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Lisboa1 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:40:55721/887Beat 19%
↑ 148 days after London Excel 2025 1:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:04 behind the field: 1:25 slower on the clock, against 0:21 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:21 slower This athlete1:25 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:39:302335/2779Beat 16%
↑ 215 days after London 2025 8:11 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:29 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:42 faster for everyone: 8:11 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This athlete6:29 slower -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:011459/1917Beat 24%
↑ 43 days after Malaga 2025 2:22 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:23 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:59 faster for everyone: 2:22 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:59 faster This athlete1:23 slower -
Malaga21 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:31:38 PB758/966Beat 22%
↑ 126 days after Dublin 2024 4:50 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:56 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:06 faster for everyone, so 4:50 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:06 faster This athlete7:56 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Relay · Mixed1:20:3816/25Beat 36%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:39:341037/1221Beat 15%
↑ 21 days after Birmingham 2024 6:55 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:55 behind the field: 3:11 slower on the clock, against 3:44 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete3:11 slower -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:36:231444/1916Beat 25%
↑ 237 days after Glasgow 2024 1:52 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:29 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:21 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:52 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:21 faster This athlete0:29 faster -
Glasgow2 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:36:521319/1784Beat 26%