Progress against the field
Between Cardiff 2025 and Cardiff 2026, Liam Waters and Ellis Hughes pulled 2:11 ahead of the field.
The clock says 4:46 faster, but the races themselves got 2:35 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 188 days between Cardiff 2025 and London Excel 2025, still ended 3:35 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 Doubles Open · Men, with Ellis Hughes, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:49277/1035Beat 73%
↑ 546 days after London 2025, with Richard Rees 1:25 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:37 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:02 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:25 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This pair1:37 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:04:45114/478Beat 76%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025, with Ellis Hughes 1:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:24 behind the field: 1:06 slower on the clock, against 0:18 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 faster This pair1:06 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:03:39 PB414/2102Beat 80%
↑ 188 days after Cardiff 2025, with Ellis Hughes 3:35 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:35 better than the field: 5:52 faster on the clock, against 2:17 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:17 faster This pair5:52 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:31295/563Beat 48%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:26267/1010Beat 74%