Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026, Wayne Newman has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
The clock says 6:38 faster, but the races themselves got 6:30 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from London Excel 2025 → Cardiff 2026: 4:41 in 146 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
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:12:46 PB124/693Beat 82%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026 0:26 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:17 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:43 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:26 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:43 faster This athlete1:17 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:03123/528Beat 77%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025 4:41 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:26 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:45 faster for everyone, so 4:41 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:45 faster This athlete6:26 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:07:08 PB265/917Beat 71%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:20:291242/2779Beat 55%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 4:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:07 behind the field: 1:05 slower on the clock, against 3:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This athlete1:05 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:24673/1821Beat 63%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:18:19557/719Beat 23%