Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2024 and London 2025, Philip Mackenzie-smit lost 0:44 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:31 quicker, so 4:47 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:21 PB302/848Beat 64%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025, with Rebekah Newman 2:58 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:57 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:59 faster for everyone, so 2:58 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:59 faster This pair4:57 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:18553/954Beat 42%
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London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:05 PB887/1917Beat 54%
↑ 190 days after Birmingham 2024 0:44 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:47 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 5:31 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:44 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:31 faster This athlete4:47 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:25:52984/1916Beat 49%