Progress against the field
Between London 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Tom Sale and Benjamin Bradley lost 3:06 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:13 quicker, so 4:07 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 193 days between London 2025 and Dublin 2025, still ended 1:12 ahead of the field.
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 Benjamin Bradley, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 8 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men59:1090/1035Beat 91%
↑ 38 days after Rome 2026, with Benjamin Bradley 2:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:08 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:59 faster for everyone: 2:07 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:59 faster This pair0:08 slower -
Rome23 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men59:0213/429Beat 97%
↑ 147 days after Cardiff 2026, with Benjamin Bradley 2:06 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:06 behind the field: 1:07 slower on the clock, against 0:59 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:59 faster This pair1:07 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men57:55 PB11/522Beat 98%
↑ 168 days after Dublin 2025, with Benjamin Bradley 0:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:12 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:17 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:17 faster This pair1:12 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men58:5743/813Beat 95%
↑ 500 days after Manchester 2024, with Joshua Atherton 7:37 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:37 better than the field: 9:27 faster on the clock, against 1:50 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:50 faster This pair9:27 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:17 PB590/2779Beat 79%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men59:0738/777Beat 95%
↑ 193 days after London 2025, with Benjamin Bradley 1:12 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:10 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:58 faster for everyone, so 1:12 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:58 faster This pair4:10 faster -
London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:03:17185/1010Beat 82%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:08:24294/719Beat 59%