Progress against the field
Between Sports Direct HYROX London 2024 and Manchester 2026, Ben Need pulled 9:56 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:25 quicker, so 14:21 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 370 days between London 2024 and London Excel 2025, still ended 4:46 ahead of 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
13 races · 11 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:4491/600Beat 85%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:2482/478Beat 83%
↑ 168 days after Dublin 2025, with Adam Grinsell 2:33 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:16 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:17 faster for everyone: 2:33 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:17 faster This pair1:16 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:21 PB21/384Beat 95%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:12:5697/529Beat 82%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025 0:33 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:34 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:07 slower for everyone: 0:33 gained on the field, which the clock hides.
The fieldCompare these two →1:07 slower This athlete0:34 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Relay · Men1:09:5169/120Beat 43%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:22 PB594/2779Beat 79%
↑ 370 days after London 2024 4:46 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:46 better than the field: 9:50 faster on the clock, against 5:04 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:04 faster This athlete9:50 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:0884/777Beat 89%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · MenDNF—
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Relay · Men1:01:2321/54Beat 61%
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Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:03:03139/736Beat 81%
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London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:22:12301/688Beat 56%
↑ 209 days after Sports Direct HYROX London 2024 4:37 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:05 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:28 faster for everyone, so 4:37 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:28 faster This athlete5:05 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Relay · Mixed1:20:0020/40Beat 50%
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Sports Direct HYROX London4 May 2024Individual Open · Men1:27:171094/1860Beat 41%