Progress against the field
From Cardiff 2025 to Birmingham 2026, Poppy Ellis got 12:34 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 8:05 quicker, so 20:39 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Cardiff 2025 → Madrid 2025: 14:42 in 181 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
14 races · 10 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:03:32 PB17/1246Beat 99%
↑ 374 days after Birmingham 2025, with Isobel Gardiner 2:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:40 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:31 faster for everyone, so 2:09 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:31 faster This pair4:40 faster -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:0856/549Beat 90%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Women1:14:4144/545Beat 92%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026 0:49 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:32 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:43 faster for everyone, so 0:49 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:43 faster This athlete3:32 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:1631/419Beat 93%
↑ 36 days after London Olympia 2026, with Harvey Few 0:12 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:18 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:06 slower for everyone: 0:12 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:06 slower This pair0:18 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:18:1343/389Beat 89%
↑ 36 days after London Olympia 2026 5:55 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:55 behind the field: 5:27 slower on the clock, against 0:28 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:28 faster This athlete5:27 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:04:58 PB62/887Beat 93%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Women1:12:46 PB18/581Beat 97%
↑ 62 days after Manchester 2026 3:03 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:35 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:38 faster for everyone, which leaves this 3:03 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:38 faster This athlete0:35 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:07:2312/487Beat 98%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:07:45 PB8/34Beat 77%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Women1:13:2157/825Beat 93%
↑ 55 days after Madrid 2025 6:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:01 better than the field: 7:01 faster on the clock, against 1:00 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:00 faster This athlete7:01 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Women1:23:06 PB130/315Beat 59%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Women1:20:2284/640Beat 87%
↑ 181 days after Cardiff 2025 14:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:42 better than the field: 14:58 faster on the clock, against 0:16 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:16 faster This athlete14:58 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women1:08:1213/411Beat 97%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:35:20266/400Beat 34%