Progress against the field
From Cardiff 2025 to Manchester 2026, Joel Barker got 3:07 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:57 quicker, so 7:04 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Dublin 2025 → London Excel 2025: 11:09 on the field in 22 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
15 races · 14 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:02534/1159Beat 54%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:33321/560Beat 43%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:33:31 PB452/478Beat 5%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:12:19 PB168/445Beat 62%
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EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:52113/359Beat 69%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:06:33100/1463Beat 93%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025 0:20 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:20 behind the field: 1:27 slower on the clock, against 1:07 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:07 slower This athlete1:27 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:05:06 PB138/2771Beat 95%
↑ 22 days after Dublin 2025 11:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:09 better than the field: 11:38 faster on the clock, against 0:29 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:29 faster This athlete11:38 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:44313/955Beat 67%
↑ 166 days after Cardiff 2025 7:42 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:42 behind the field: 3:07 slower on the clock, against 4:35 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:35 faster This athlete3:07 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:01:40 PB45/954Beat 95%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:37327/1401Beat 77%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:03:1559/956Beat 94%
↑ 52 days after Glasgow 2025, with Victoria Bradbury 2:59 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:20 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:19 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:59 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:19 faster This pair0:20 faster -
Warsaw12 Apr 2025Individual Pro · Men1:19:03109/213Beat 49%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:03:3535/841Beat 96%
↑ 123 days after Paris 2024, with Victoria Bradbury 2:20 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:19 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:39 faster for everyone, so 2:20 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:39 faster This pair1:19 faster -
Paris9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:04:5416/664Beat 98%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:3844/494Beat 91%