Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2024 to Lisboa 2026, Shannon Close and Lewis Blower got 2:12 faster than the field.
The clock says 9:13 faster, but the races themselves got 7:01 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 371 days between Barcelona 2025 and Lisboa 2026, still ended 3:24 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
6 races · 6 events
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Lisboa1 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:09 PB149/274Beat 46%
↑ 371 days after Barcelona 2025, with Lewis Blower 3:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:24 better than the field: 6:18 faster on the clock, against 2:54 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:54 faster This pair6:18 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:25:26 PB441/867Beat 49%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Women1:36:14 PB584/1084Beat 46%
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Barcelona25 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:25:27594/774Beat 23%
↑ 182 days after Birmingham 2024, with Lewis Blower 1:12 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:55 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:07 faster for everyone, so 1:12 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:07 faster This pair2:55 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:28:22335/494Beat 32%
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Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Women1:50:03448/532Beat 16%