Progress against the field
Craig Palmer has dropped 6:22 behind the field from Cardiff 2025 to Manchester 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 3:39 quicker, so 2:43 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Birmingham 2025 → Manchester 2026: 9:47 on the field in 91 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 8 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:59393/1035Beat 62%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Graham Wilson 3:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:02 better than the field: 4:38 faster on the clock, against 1:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair4:38 faster -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:27:38527/605Beat 13%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Masotja Sibandze 9:45 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:45 behind the field: 8:09 slower on the clock, against 1:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair8:09 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:11:37209/430Beat 51%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:19:29355/478Beat 26%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:45:27459/551Beat 17%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 9:47 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:50 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:03 faster for everyone, so 9:47 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete10:50 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:44 PB244/1815Beat 87%
↑ 405 days after Birmingham 2024, with Lukasz Ignatowicz 3:25 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:30 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:05 faster for everyone, so 3:25 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →4:05 faster This pair7:30 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:56:171497/1600Beat 6%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 16:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
13:33 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:36 faster for everyone: 16:09 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This athlete13:33 slower -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:42:44 PB569/639Beat 11%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:09:14167/441Beat 62%
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Manchester28 Jan 2023Doubles Open · Men1:15:22107/229Beat 53%