Progress against the field
Between Madrid 2025 and Cardiff 2026, Martin Donnelly and Bobby Donnelly pulled 9:19 ahead of the field.
The clock says 11:35 faster, but the races themselves got 2:16 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 Doubles Open · Men, with Bobby Donnelly, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:17440/1035Beat 58%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:07 PB148/430Beat 66%
↑ 153 days after Madrid 2025, with Bobby Donnelly 9:19 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:35 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:16 faster for everyone, so 9:19 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:16 faster This pair11:35 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:19:42751/1029Beat 27%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:17:28771/1099Beat 30%
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Sports Direct HYROX London4 May 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:30:24 PB742/925Beat 20%
↑ 160 days after London 2023, with Lucy Donnelly 2:30 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:22 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:52 faster for everyone, so 2:30 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:52 faster This pair0:22 faster -
London26 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:30:46721/909Beat 21%