Progress against the field
Michael Bowler has dropped 2:15 behind the field from Dublin 2025 to Malaga 2026.
The clock says 1:16 faster, but the races themselves got 3:31 quicker for everyone.
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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Oslo26 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:22 PB36/490Beat 93%
↑ 365 days after Oslo 2025, with David Kealy 4:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:20 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:48 faster for everyone, so 4:32 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:48 faster This pair7:20 faster -
Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:04:50 PB82/1036Beat 92%
↑ 155 days after Dublin 2025 2:15 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:16 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:31 faster for everyone, so 2:15 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 faster This athlete1:16 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:06:0676/955Beat 92%
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Oslo26 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:07:42136/530Beat 74%
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Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:2071/1208Beat 94%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:20:23177/545Beat 68%