Progress against the field
Michael Johnson has gained 0:26 on the field from London 2024 to Manchester 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 6:39 quicker, so 7:05 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 236 days between Cardiff 2025 and Manchester 2026, still ended 3:02 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
13 races · 11 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:01:44 PB19/293Beat 94%
↑ 234 days after Glasgow 2026, with Jess Lynch 0:02 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:03 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:05 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:05 faster This pair2:03 faster -
Rome23 Sep 2026Individual Open · MenDNF—
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New York28 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:51:25408/479Beat 15%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men54:572/430Beat 100%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men56:45 PB59/493Beat 88%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:03:4746/1198Beat 96%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men55:042/398Beat 100%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:02:30 PB41/1463Beat 97%
↑ 236 days after Cardiff 2025 3:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:41 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:39 faster for everyone, so 3:02 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:39 faster This athlete5:41 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men54:16 PB4/777Beat 100%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Pro · Men59:4520/116Beat 83%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men56:0728/1099Beat 98%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:11136/1401Beat 90%
↑ 182 days after London 2024 2:36 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:24 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 4:00 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:36 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:00 faster This athlete1:24 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:09:3576/688Beat 89%