Progress against the field
Andrew Somers has dropped 5:07 behind the field from Birmingham 2025 to Cardiff 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 4:00 quicker, so 1:07 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 · Men, 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 · Men1:27:58546/913Beat 40%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025 5:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:07 behind the field: 1:07 slower on the clock, against 4:00 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:00 faster This athlete1:07 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:09473/887Beat 47%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:35 PB306/1372Beat 78%
↑ 188 days after Cardiff 2025, with Ellie Gibbon 8:19 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:27 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:08 faster for everyone, so 8:19 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:08 faster This pair11:27 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:26:51 PB850/1600Beat 47%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:23:02306/470Beat 35%