Progress against the field
Connor Hichens has dropped 2:15 behind the field from London 2024 to Manchester 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 6:55 quicker, so 4:40 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 188 days between Cardiff 2025 and London Excel 2025, cost 2:18 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 Individual Open · Men, 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 · Men1:15:52334/600Beat 44%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:15:53318/522Beat 39%
↑ 36 days after London Olympia 2026, with Matt Gigg 1:15 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:05 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:10 faster for everyone: 1:15 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:10 faster This pair1:05 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:48 PB210/396Beat 47%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:33:111042/1463Beat 29%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025 1:47 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:47 behind the field: 2:54 slower on the clock, against 1:07 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:07 slower This athlete2:54 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:30:17 PB1936/2779Beat 30%
↑ 188 days after Cardiff 2025 2:18 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:44 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 4:02 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:18 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:02 faster This athlete1:44 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:32:01469/639Beat 27%
↑ 182 days after London 2024 1:50 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:50 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:00 faster for everyone, so 1:50 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:00 faster This athlete5:50 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:37:511260/1637Beat 23%