Progress against the field
Between Manchester 2024 and London Excel 2025, Helen Young and Lee Whitfield pulled 17:11 ahead of the field.
The clock says 22:01 faster, but the races themselves got 4:50 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 347 days between Manchester 2024 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 17:11 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Mixed, with Lee Whitfield, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Women1:50:36438/547Beat 20%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026 3:13 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:30 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:43 faster for everyone: 3:13 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:43 faster This athlete0:30 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:50:06 PB301/389Beat 23%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:51:11 PB533/554Beat 4%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:33:18 PB1143/1372Beat 17%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025, with Lee Whitfield 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 2:48 faster on the clock, against 2:48 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:48 faster This pair2:48 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:36:06768/889Beat 14%
↑ 347 days after Manchester 2024, with Lee Whitfield 17:11 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
17:11 better than the field: 19:13 faster on the clock, against 2:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:02 faster This pair19:13 faster -
Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:55:19406/410Beat 1%