Progress against the field
Philip Foster has dropped 1:15 behind the field from Copenhagen 2025 to Rome 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 2:49 quicker, so 1:34 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Birmingham 2025 → Cardiff 2026: 4:21 on the field in 189 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Rome23 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:20:58430/1062Beat 60%
↑ 147 days after Cardiff 2026 5:21 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:21 behind the field: 6:39 slower on the clock, against 1:18 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:18 slower This athlete6:39 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:19 PB100/466Beat 79%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025 4:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:00 faster for everyone, so 4:21 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:00 faster This athlete8:21 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:40213/523Beat 59%
↑ 222 days after Copenhagen 2025 0:15 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:08 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:07 faster for everyone: 0:15 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:07 faster This athlete0:08 slower -
Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:32661/1323Beat 50%