Progress against the field
Matthew Norton has gained 1:54 on the field from Hamburg 2025 to London Excel 2025.
The clock says 4:22 faster, but the races themselves got 2:28 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
16 races · 15 events
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Rome23 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:17 PB10/317Beat 97%
↑ 160 days after Malaga 2026, with Jonathon Wilks 2:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 1:32 slower for everyone and the clock still says 0:36 faster: 2:08 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:32 slower This pair0:36 faster -
Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:5327/494Beat 95%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:04:52190/813Beat 77%
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EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:45523/958Beat 45%
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Toulouse19 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:27:55406/643Beat 37%
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Istanbul 113 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:4993/609Beat 85%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:52578/1815Beat 68%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025, with Vinicius Dos Santos Alberto 0:42 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:09 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:51 faster for everyone, so 0:42 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 faster This pair1:09 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:25 PB528/2779Beat 81%
↑ 63 days after Hamburg 2025 1:54 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:22 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:28 faster for everyone, so 1:54 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:28 faster This athlete4:22 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:27:01 PB154/196Beat 21%
↑ 62 days after Rome 2025 2:10 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:19 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:51 slower for everyone: 2:10 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:51 slower This athlete1:19 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:08:0175/189Beat 60%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:47284/1486Beat 81%
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Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Pro · Men1:28:20228/276Beat 17%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:04565/1401Beat 60%
↑ 79 days after Glasgow 2025 4:11 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:11 better than the field: 4:41 faster on the clock, against 0:30 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:30 faster This athlete4:41 faster -
London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:31:28 PB839/956Beat 12%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:45831/1588Beat 48%
↑ 95 days after Stockholm 2024 7:05 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:39 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:34 faster for everyone, so 7:05 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:34 faster This athlete8:39 faster -
Stockholm7 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men1:32:24309/447Beat 31%