Progress against the field
Between Barcelona 2025 and London Excel 2025, Ben King kept pace with the field.
The clock says 4:16 faster, but the races themselves got 4:09 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:00:56 PB151/476Beat 68%
↑ 221 days after London Olympia 2026, with Carey Pearson 0:49 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:49 better than the field: 1:15 faster on the clock, against 0:26 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:26 faster This pair1:15 faster -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:11:40 PB235/605Beat 61%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Sam Thomas 0:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:30 better than the field: 2:06 faster on the clock, against 1:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair2:06 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:13:46166/271Beat 39%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:02:11138/484Beat 72%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:51:33 PB806/824Beat 2%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:32 PB765/2771Beat 72%
↑ 223 days after Barcelona 2025 0:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:16 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:09 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →4:09 faster This athlete4:16 faster -
Barcelona25 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:48457/1106Beat 59%