Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2024 and Cardiff 2025, Richard Davies pulled 5:23 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:51 quicker, so 11:14 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Birmingham 2024 → Glasgow 2025: 19:48 on the field in 138 days.
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
16 races · 13 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:12:26600/1035Beat 42%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:09152/566Beat 73%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:35:57239/297Beat 20%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:49 PB423/824Beat 49%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:26:111857/2102Beat 12%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:38 PB291/1815Beat 84%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025, with Neil Toner 1:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:09 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:51 faster for everyone, so 1:18 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 faster This pair3:09 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:47335/1099Beat 70%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:45951/1401Beat 32%
↑ 79 days after Glasgow 2025 14:25 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
13:55 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:30 faster for everyone: 14:25 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:30 faster This athlete13:55 slower -
London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:16262/1010Beat 74%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:50 PB432/1588Beat 73%
↑ 138 days after Birmingham 2024 19:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
25:09 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:21 faster for everyone, so 19:48 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →5:21 faster This athlete25:09 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:39:591542/1916Beat 20%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:18:32254/816Beat 69%
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Singapore National Stadium29 Jun 2024Relay · Men1:09:098/100Beat 92%
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Copenhagen23 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men1:29:09264/291Beat 9%
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London26 Nov 2023Individual Pro · Men1:28:14 PB212/321Beat 34%
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Singapore7 Oct 2023Relay · Men1:13:244/44Beat 91%