Progress against the field
Matthew James has dropped 10:53 behind the field from London 2025 to London Olympia 2026.
The clock says 7:17 slower, but the races themselves got 3:36 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 215 days between London 2025 and London Excel 2025, cost 3:28 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:39:26698/897Beat 22%
↑ 110 days after London Excel 2025 7:25 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:31 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:54 faster for everyone: 7:25 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:54 faster This athlete5:31 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:552114/2779Beat 24%
↑ 215 days after London 2025 3:28 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:28 behind the field: 1:46 slower on the clock, against 1:42 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This athlete1:46 slower -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:32:09 PB1437/1917Beat 25%