Progress against the field
Ben Richmond has gained 4:31 on the field from Madrid 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 5:33 quicker, so 10:04 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 234 days between Glasgow 2026 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 3:01 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
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:23:37 PB188/359Beat 48%
↑ 234 days after Glasgow 2026 3:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:55 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:54 faster for everyone, so 3:01 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:54 faster This athlete5:55 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:56 PB119/430Beat 72%
↑ 36 days after London Olympia 2026, with Danny Horwood 0:14 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:14 better than the field: 0:24 faster on the clock, against 0:10 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:10 faster This pair0:24 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:07:20257/813Beat 68%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:29:32360/613Beat 41%
↑ 104 days after Madrid 2025 1:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:09 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:39 faster for everyone, so 1:30 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:39 faster This athlete4:09 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:41931/1312Beat 29%
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London3 May 2025Relay · Men1:06:5338/67Beat 43%