Progress against the field
From Cardiff 2025 to Cardiff 2026, Grace Hickman got 2:18 faster than the field.
The clock says 7:14 faster, but the races themselves got 4:56 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Cardiff 2025 → Birmingham 2025: 2:48 on the field in 145 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
5 races · 5 events
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:24:25 PB100/351Beat 72%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025 0:30 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:40 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:10 faster for everyone, so 0:30 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:10 faster This athlete2:40 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:19:08 PB486/1599Beat 70%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:27:05225/748Beat 70%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 2:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:34 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:46 faster for everyone, so 2:48 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:46 faster This athlete4:34 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:31:39226/400Beat 44%
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Malaga21 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Women1:36:13227/264Beat 14%