Progress against the field
Between London Excel 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Will Birch and Daniel Newson kept pace with the field.
The clock says 1:46 faster, but the races themselves got 1:54 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 185 days between Cardiff 2026 and Birmingham 2026, cost 2:40 on 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 Daniel Newson, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:07:06179/605Beat 70%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Daniel Newson 2:40 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:04 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:36 faster for everyone: 2:40 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair1:04 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:02139/522Beat 73%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025, with Daniel Newson 2:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:32 better than the field: 2:50 faster on the clock, against 0:18 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 faster This pair2:50 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:09 PB134/813Beat 84%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:08:52849/2102Beat 60%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · MenDNF—
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London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:15 PB737/1917Beat 62%
↑ 155 days after London 2024 4:10 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:19 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 5:29 faster for everyone, which leaves this 4:10 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:29 faster This athlete1:19 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:19:34251/688Beat 64%