Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026, Laurenne Hopkins and Helen Braisby got 4:14 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:26 quicker, so 10:40 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 185 days between Cardiff 2026 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 1:28 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.
Every race
5 races · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:22:07 PB644/1159Beat 44%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:33:48 PB446/627Beat 29%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Helen Braisby 1:28 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:07 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:39 faster for everyone, so 1:28 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This pair3:07 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Women1:36:55667/862Beat 23%
↑ 98 days after Manchester 2026, with Helen Braisby 2:45 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:14 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:59 faster for everyone, so 2:45 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:59 faster This pair2:14 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Women1:39:09130/193Beat 33%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025, with Helen Braisby 5:31 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 0:12 slower for everyone and the clock still says 5:19 faster: 5:31 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:12 slower This pair5:19 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women1:44:281011/1111Beat 9%