Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2023 and Cardiff 2026, Matthew Smith pulled 35:51 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 8:19 quicker, so 44:10 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
872 days between Birmingham 2023 and Glasgow 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 32:34 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
20 races · 19 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:43 PB152/1035Beat 85%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Mike McCarthy 0:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:29 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:36 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair1:29 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:1264/478Beat 87%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:23:30239/466Beat 49%
↑ 49 days after Glasgow 2026 3:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:17 better than the field: 6:05 faster on the clock, against 2:48 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:48 faster This athlete6:05 faster -
Warsaw16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:1627/175Beat 85%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:42299/454Beat 34%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:29:35361/613Beat 41%
↑ 872 days after Birmingham 2023 32:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
32:34 better than the field: 38:05 faster on the clock, against 5:31 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:31 faster This athlete38:05 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:32476/1815Beat 74%
↑ 69 days after Oslo 2025, with Scott Clarke 0:55 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:30 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:25 faster for everyone, so 0:55 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:25 faster This pair3:30 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:27165/1177Beat 86%
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Oslo26 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:0246/190Beat 76%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:27130/563Beat 77%
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Paris 118 Apr 2025Doubles Open · MenDNF—
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:40:351065/1105Beat 4%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Relay · Men1:17:48127/148Beat 14%
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Milan19 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:15:13189/572Beat 67%
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Gdansk26 May 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:06 PB44/146Beat 70%
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Sports Direct HYROX London4 May 2024Relay · Mixed1:25:1958/87Beat 33%
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Katowice24 Feb 2024Doubles Open · Men1:13:4451/96Beat 47%
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Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men2:07:401135/1182Beat 4%
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Manchester29 Jan 2022Doubles Open · Men1:05:3028/148Beat 81%
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St. GallenDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:12:42 PB125/1003Beat 88%