Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Manchester 2026, Laura Pomfret pulled 4:03 ahead of the field.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 4:03 faster on the clock is close to the whole story.
The largest gain on the field came from Birmingham 2025 → London Excel 2025: 2:43 in 43 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 Pro · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:04:41 PB36/301Beat 88%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:07:52 PB14/585Beat 98%
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Geneva9 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:06:5115/206Beat 93%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:13:35 PB7/400Beat 98%
↑ 413 days after Glasgow 2025 15:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
17:46 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:20 faster for everyone, so 15:26 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:20 faster This athlete17:46 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Women1:18:1836/146Beat 75%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025 1:20 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:59 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:19 slower for everyone: 1:20 gained on the field, which the clock hides.
The fieldCompare these two →2:19 slower This athlete0:59 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:06:585/30Beat 83%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Women1:17:19 PB76/315Beat 76%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 2:43 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:43 better than the field: 5:02 faster on the clock, against 2:19 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:19 faster This athlete5:02 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Women1:22:2145/138Beat 67%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Women1:31:21418/830Beat 50%