Progress against the field
From Stockholm 2024 to Manchester 2026, the field gained 2:43 on Ben Ruxton.
The clock says 1:59 faster, but the races themselves got 4:42 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 236 days between Cardiff 2025 and Manchester 2026, cost 1:50 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
10 races · 9 events
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:49116/419Beat 72%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:18:48 PB193/551Beat 65%
↑ 236 days after Cardiff 2025 1:50 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:49 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:39 faster for everyone, so 1:50 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:39 faster This athlete0:49 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:11 PB522/1815Beat 71%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:53 PB166/1474Beat 89%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:18404/954Beat 58%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025, with Eleanor Brinley 5:29 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:03 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:26 faster for everyone: 5:29 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:26 faster This pair4:03 slower -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:37590/1401Beat 58%
↑ 35 days after Barcelona 2025 1:47 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:47 behind the field: 0:30 slower on the clock, against 1:17 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:17 faster This athlete0:30 slower -
Barcelona25 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:07285/795Beat 64%
↑ 139 days after Stockholm 2024 0:54 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:54 better than the field: 1:40 faster on the clock, against 0:46 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:46 faster This athlete1:40 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:15170/861Beat 80%
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Stockholm7 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men1:20:47266/651Beat 59%
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KölnDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:27:24497/815Beat 39%