Progress against the field
Between Cardiff 2025 and Manchester 2026, Laura Smith lost 2:00 to the field.
The clock says 1:21 faster, but the races themselves got 3:21 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Cardiff 2025 → Birmingham 2025: 12:33 on the field in 145 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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
23 races · 17 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:44:03496/585Beat 15%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:45313/848Beat 63%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:21:42 PB153/404Beat 62%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:50196/454Beat 57%
↑ 153 days after Birmingham 2025, with Luke Smith 12:26 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:17 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:09 faster for everyone: 12:26 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:09 faster This pair9:17 slower -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:36:06189/279Beat 32%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Women1:31:34774/1155Beat 33%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Women1:37:09475/825Beat 42%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 14:33 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:33 behind the field: 12:58 slower on the clock, against 1:35 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:35 faster This athlete12:58 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:48:231792/1887Beat 5%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Relay · Mixed1:27:0139/55Beat 29%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:33 PB136/889Beat 85%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women1:24:44188/411Beat 54%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:24:11 PB231/829Beat 72%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 12:33 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:19 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:46 faster for everyone, so 12:33 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:46 faster This athlete14:19 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:38:30292/400Beat 27%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Pro · Women1:22:5333/113Beat 71%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:19422/841Beat 50%
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Katowice22 Feb 2025Individual Pro · Women1:22:5630/77Beat 61%
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London29 Nov 2024Individual Pro · Women1:22:2726/81Beat 68%
↑ 35 days after Birmingham 2024 3:29 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:34 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:05 faster for everyone, so 3:29 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:05 faster This athlete5:34 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Pro · Women1:28:0149/102Beat 52%
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Berlin20 Apr 2024Individual Pro · Women1:18:31 PB37/79Beat 53%
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Turin3 Feb 2024Individual Pro · Women1:21:277/44Beat 84%
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London26 Nov 2023Individual Pro · Women1:21:3631/116Beat 73%
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Manchester28 Jan 2023Individual Pro · Women1:28:3317/46Beat 63%
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World Championships ManchesterDate unknownIndividual Pro · Women1:25:46234/330Beat 29%