Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Cardiff 2026, Antony Oliver kept pace with the field.
The clock says 6:33 faster, but the races themselves got 6:30 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Birmingham 2025 → Stockholm 2025: 5:48 in 57 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
4 races · 4 events
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:36:02676/913Beat 26%
↑ 36 days after London Olympia 2026 1:33 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:33 behind the field: 0:17 slower on the clock, against 1:16 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:16 faster This athlete0:17 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:35:45464/642Beat 28%
↑ 96 days after Stockholm 2025 4:12 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:59 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:13 faster for everyone: 4:12 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:13 faster This athlete1:59 slower -
Stockholm18 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:46 PB935/1315Beat 29%
↑ 57 days after Birmingham 2025 5:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:49 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:01 faster for everyone, so 5:48 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:01 faster This athlete8:49 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:42:351514/1821Beat 17%