Progress against the field
From Valencia 2025 to Rome 2026, the field gained 0:37 on Dominic Richards.
The clock says 4:14 faster, but the races themselves got 4:51 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Valencia 2025 → Madrid 2025: 8:24 on the field in 41 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
8 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:58121/549Beat 78%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Niamh Merrison 3:23 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:23 behind the field: 1:46 slower on the clock, against 1:37 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:37 faster This pair1:46 slower -
Rome23 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:32:04406/581Beat 30%
↑ 160 days after Malaga 2026 10:21 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:50 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:29 slower for everyone: 10:21 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:29 slower This athlete11:50 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Relay · Men1:01:0719/53Beat 64%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:12 PB51/361Beat 86%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:20:14 PB242/474Beat 49%
↑ 140 days after Madrid 2025 1:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:48 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:28 faster for everyone, so 1:20 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →5:28 faster This athlete6:48 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:22:15 PB286/404Beat 29%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:02725/1312Beat 45%
↑ 41 days after Valencia 2025 8:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:16 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:52 faster for everyone, so 8:24 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:52 faster This athlete9:16 faster -
Valencia17 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:36:18334/455Beat 27%