Progress against the field
Dean Roberts and Rob Hadley have dropped 8:04 behind the field from Birmingham 2025 to Cardiff 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 3:42 quicker, so 4:22 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
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 Rob Hadley, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 9 events
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:30:52444/478Beat 7%
↑ 98 days after Manchester 2026, with Rob Hadley 5:36 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:36 behind the field: 1:56 slower on the clock, against 3:40 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:40 faster This pair1:56 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:28:56337/404Beat 17%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025, with Rob Hadley 2:28 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:28 behind the field: 2:26 slower on the clock, against 0:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 faster This pair2:26 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:25:37 PB934/1372Beat 32%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:59:06 PB457/467Beat 2%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:41:531095/1312Beat 17%
↑ 355 days after Marseille 2024 19:45 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:22 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:23 faster for everyone: 19:45 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:23 faster This athlete16:22 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:26:30 PB959/1099Beat 13%
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Marseille7 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men1:25:31 PB868/1477Beat 41%
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London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men2:13:381612/1637Beat 2%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:33:36831/875Beat 5%
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Manchester28 Jan 2023Doubles Open · Men1:43:32225/229Beat 2%