Progress against the field
Between Sports Direct HYROX London 2024 and Cardiff 2026, Oliver Allen and Alex Darlington pulled 0:42 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:52 quicker, so 7:34 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 627 days between Sports Direct HYROX London 2024 and Manchester 2026, still ended 8:15 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 Doubles Open · Men, with Alex Darlington, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 6 events
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:21:55398/566Beat 30%
↑ 98 days after Manchester 2026, with Alex Darlington 7:33 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:33 behind the field: 3:53 slower on the clock, against 3:40 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:40 faster This pair3:53 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:23:49560/887Beat 37%
↑ 325 days after London 2025, with Jaskiranprit Bains 5:01 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:01 behind the field: 3:09 slower on the clock, against 1:52 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:52 faster This pair3:09 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:43:29539/642Beat 16%
↑ 110 days after London Excel 2025 18:11 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:17 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:54 faster for everyone: 18:11 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:54 faster This athlete16:17 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:18:02 PB241/404Beat 40%
↑ 627 days after Sports Direct HYROX London 2024, with Alex Darlington 8:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:27 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:12 faster for everyone, so 8:15 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:12 faster This pair11:27 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:12 PB1733/2779Beat 38%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:40 PB582/956Beat 39%
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Sports Direct HYROX London4 May 2024Doubles Open · Men1:29:29928/1033Beat 10%