Progress against the field
Between London Excel 2025 and Cardiff 2026, Laura Dolton lost 4:31 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:09 quicker, so 3:22 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:22:1170/400Beat 83%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025 4:31 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:22 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:09 faster for everyone: 4:31 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:09 faster This athlete3:22 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Women1:18:49 PB204/1379Beat 85%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Women1:10:33 PB50/529Beat 91%
↑ 27 days after London 2025, with Jasmine Wolstenholme 0:14 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:54 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:08 faster for everyone, so 0:14 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:08 faster This pair0:54 faster -
London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Women1:11:2798/1118Beat 91%
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Malaga21 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Women1:14:2290/514Beat 83%