Progress against the field
Jonjo Gallagher has dropped 4:46 behind the field from Bilbao 2025 to Cardiff 2026.
The clock says 1:41 faster, but the races themselves got 6:27 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 249 days between Bilbao 2025 and Birmingham 2025, cost 2:10 on 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
12 races · 11 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men59:0482/1035Beat 92%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Relay · Men55:076/53Beat 89%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:07:21 PB30/365Beat 92%
↑ 98 days after Manchester 2026 1:17 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:12 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:29 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:17 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:29 faster This athlete2:12 faster -
Copenhagen13 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men59:04 PB5/216Beat 98%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:33198/1463Beat 87%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 1:19 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:19 behind the field: 0:16 slower on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete0:16 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:17215/1821Beat 88%
↑ 249 days after Bilbao 2025 2:10 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:15 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:55 faster for everyone: 2:10 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:55 faster This athlete0:15 slower -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:24173/898Beat 81%
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Bilbao15 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:0258/416Beat 86%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:36138/616Beat 78%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:10:51141/1221Beat 89%
↑ 21 days after Birmingham 2024 0:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:53 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:44 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete3:53 faster -
Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:07:45273/719Beat 62%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:14:44361/1916Beat 81%