Progress against the field
From London Excel 2025 to Birmingham 2026, Sam Brown got 45:18 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:28 quicker, so 48:46 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 185 days between Cardiff 2026 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 1:22 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
12 races · 11 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:29:29546/605Beat 10%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:07:58 PB48/359Beat 87%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026 1:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:05 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:43 faster for everyone, so 1:22 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:43 faster This athlete3:05 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:11:0365/466Beat 86%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025 43:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
43:56 better than the field: 45:41 faster on the clock, against 1:45 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:45 faster This athlete45:41 faster -
Warsaw16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:23 PB140/181Beat 23%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:11:22158/384Beat 59%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:05:1643/243Beat 82%
↑ 140 days after Birmingham 2025, with Ellis White 3:46 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:51 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:55 faster for everyone: 3:46 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:55 faster This pair2:51 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:56:442664/2779Beat 4%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:25 PB160/1177Beat 86%
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Madrid26 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:06:02104/706Beat 85%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:14:55516/875Beat 41%
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London26 Nov 2023Individual Pro · MenDNF—
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Birmingham30 Oct 2021Individual Open · Men2:03:25172/178Beat 3%