Progress against the field
Mark Richards has gained 2:55 on the field from Manchester 2025 to Cardiff 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 13:04 quicker, so 15:59 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
197 days between Cardiff 2025 and Poznan 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 4:21 better than 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
13 races · 12 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:40 PB310/600Beat 48%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:24:52 PB277/528Beat 48%
↑ 13 days after Malaga 2026 0:50 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:50 better than the field: 2:11 faster on the clock, against 1:21 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:21 faster This athlete2:11 faster -
Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:27:03323/474Beat 32%
↑ 85 days after Manchester 2026 1:17 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:44 faster on the clock, yet the race was 6:01 faster for everyone, so 1:17 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:01 faster This athlete4:44 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:49159/500Beat 68%
↑ 312 days after London 2025, with Rebekah Warburton 0:39 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:05 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:26 slower for everyone: 0:39 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:26 slower This pair2:05 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:31:47354/551Beat 36%
↑ 39 days after Poznan 2025 2:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:41 behind the field: 4:02 slower on the clock, against 1:21 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:21 slower This athlete4:02 slower -
Poznan13 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:45618/1184Beat 48%
↑ 197 days after Cardiff 2025 4:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:05 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:44 faster for everyone, so 4:21 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete8:05 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:19:09822/1099Beat 25%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Relay · Men1:19:2922/24Beat 8%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:35:50508/639Beat 21%
↑ 35 days after Barcelona 2025 7:40 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:23 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:17 faster for everyone: 7:40 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:17 faster This athlete6:23 slower -
London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:44 PB381/956Beat 60%
↑ 52 days after Glasgow 2025, with Rebekah Warburton 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:19 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:19 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:19 faster This pair3:19 faster -
Barcelona25 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:29:27756/1106Beat 32%
↑ 91 days after Manchester 2025 9:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:24 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:02 faster for everyone, so 9:22 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:02 faster This athlete11:24 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:03351/861Beat 59%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:40:511018/1191Beat 15%