Progress against the field
From London 2025 to Cardiff 2026, Maddie Gordon got 15:12 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:48 quicker, so 20:00 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
189 days between Birmingham 2025 and Cardiff 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 6:50 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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 5 events
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Oslo26 Sep 2026Individual Open · Women1:52:38480/576Beat 17%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:45:06 PB267/351Beat 24%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025 6:50 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:50 better than the field: 10:00 faster on the clock, against 3:10 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:10 faster This athlete10:00 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:28:05 PB1241/1887Beat 34%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025, with Lia Newman 0:45 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:15 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:30 faster for everyone, so 0:45 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:30 faster This pair3:15 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women1:31:20775/1111Beat 30%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:55:06633/748Beat 15%
↑ 172 days after London 2025 8:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:22 better than the field: 10:00 faster on the clock, against 1:38 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:38 faster This athlete10:00 faster -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Women2:05:061284/1368Beat 6%