Progress against the field
Between Cardiff 2025 and Madrid 2025, Michael Wolfenden pulled 2:59 ahead of the field.
The clock says 4:48 faster, but the races themselves got 1:49 quicker for everyone.
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
10 races · 10 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:12:43307/605Beat 49%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:07:03 PB163/522Beat 69%
↑ 551 days after Birmingham 2024, with Dean Hardy 3:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:42 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:35 faster for everyone, so 3:07 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:35 faster This pair6:42 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:29:28 PB811/1312Beat 38%
↑ 181 days after Cardiff 2025 2:59 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:48 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:49 faster for everyone, so 2:59 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:49 faster This athlete4:48 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:34495/1099Beat 55%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:161102/1401Beat 21%
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Barcelona25 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:15:12505/781Beat 35%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:19:02714/947Beat 25%
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Paris9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:15:12444/865Beat 49%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:13:45474/875Beat 46%
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Toronto5 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:20:2096/167Beat 43%