Progress against the field
Matty Walker and Billy Mcdonough have gained 2:19 on the field from Berlin 2025 to Cardiff 2026.
The clock says 4:16 faster, but the races themselves got 1:57 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Berlin 2025 → Birmingham 2025: 2:42 on the field in 159 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:14 PB35/522Beat 93%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025, with Billy Mcdonough 0:23 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:35 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:58 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:23 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:58 faster This pair1:35 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:49180/1099Beat 84%
↑ 159 days after Berlin 2025, with Billy Mcdonough 2:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:41 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:01 slower for everyone: 2:42 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:01 slower This pair2:41 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:30149/496Beat 70%