Progress against the field
From Glasgow 2023 to Manchester 2026, Gareth Jones got 9:58 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 10:14 quicker, so 20:12 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 622 days between Glasgow 2023 and Birmingham 2024, still ended 1:04:07 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
17 races · 13 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:57558/1159Beat 52%
↑ 374 days after Birmingham 2025, with Francesca Dale 2:10 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:27 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:17 faster for everyone, so 2:10 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:17 faster This pair4:27 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed58:3710/848Beat 99%
↑ 36 days after EMEA London Olympia 2026, with Gemma Rous 0:30 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:45 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:15 slower for everyone: 0:30 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:15 slower This pair0:45 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:35 PB191/522Beat 63%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:09:18204/478Beat 57%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:18:02537/813Beat 34%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:15:22213/384Beat 45%
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EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed57:52 PB35/359Beat 90%
↑ 153 days after Birmingham 2025, with Gemma Rous 0:45 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:45 better than the field: 1:25 faster on the clock, against 0:40 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:40 faster This pair1:25 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:57:47499/551Beat 9%
↑ 284 days after Warsaw 2025 52:55 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
54:39 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:44 slower for everyone: 52:55 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:44 slower This athlete54:39 slower -
Verona5 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:43:041041/1091Beat 5%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:24203/312Beat 35%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed59:1714/889Beat 98%
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Rome26 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:18:49577/775Beat 26%
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Warsaw12 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:03:08 PB25/768Beat 97%
↑ 161 days after Poznan 2024 4:21 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:25 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 5:46 faster for everyone, which leaves this 4:21 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:46 faster This athlete1:25 faster -
Poznan2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:04:3345/776Beat 94%
↑ 8 days after Birmingham 2024 3:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:07 better than the field: 7:22 faster on the clock, against 4:15 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:15 faster This athlete7:22 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:11:55237/1916Beat 88%
↑ 622 days after Glasgow 2023 1:04:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:06:04 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:57 faster for everyone, so 1:04:07 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:57 faster This athlete1:06:04 faster -
Glasgow11 Feb 2023Individual Open · Men2:17:59964/974Beat 1%
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Birmingham15 Oct 2022Doubles Open · Men1:47:57354/358Beat 1%