Progress against the field
Luke Norton has dropped 0:50 behind the field from Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 5:43 quicker, so 4:53 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 189 days between Birmingham 2025 and Cardiff 2026, still ended 11:26 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
3 races · 3 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:30:45430/646Beat 33%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026 12:16 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:16 behind the field: 10:33 slower on the clock, against 1:43 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:43 faster This athlete10:33 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:20:12 PB221/528Beat 58%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025 11:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:26 better than the field: 15:26 faster on the clock, against 4:00 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:00 faster This athlete15:26 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:35:381167/1600Beat 27%