Progress against the field
Joshua Solman has dropped 1:10 behind the field from Copenhagen 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
The clock says 4:34 faster, but the races themselves got 5:44 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 400 days between Rome 2025 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 3:15 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 · Men1:14:35 PB164/693Beat 76%
↑ 400 days after Rome 2025 3:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:07 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:52 faster for everyone, so 3:15 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:52 faster This athlete7:07 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:04 PB65/848Beat 92%
↑ 334 days after Cardiff 2025, with Kate Marriott 12:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:56 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:55 faster for everyone, so 12:01 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:55 faster This pair15:56 faster -
Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:42666/1367Beat 51%
↑ 196 days after Copenhagen 2025 4:25 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:33 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:52 faster for everyone: 4:25 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:52 faster This athlete2:33 slower -
Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:00271/470Beat 42%
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Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:09530/1323Beat 60%
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London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:22:02 PB766/984Beat 22%