Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2024 and Birmingham 2026, Ben Race pulled 10:04 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 10:04 quicker, so 20:08 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 336 days between Birmingham 2024 and Rome 2025, still ended 11:04 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
7 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:23 PB101/586Beat 83%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:16 PB76/693Beat 89%
↑ 234 days after Glasgow 2026 1:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:54 faster for everyone, so 1:27 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:54 faster This athlete4:21 faster -
Gdansk10 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:49191/852Beat 78%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:2883/546Beat 85%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:37119/595Beat 80%
↑ 166 days after Rome 2025 2:27 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:51 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:36 faster for everyone: 2:27 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This athlete0:51 slower -
Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:46312/1367Beat 77%
↑ 336 days after Birmingham 2024 11:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:38 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:34 faster for everyone, so 11:04 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →5:34 faster This athlete16:38 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:29:24490/816Beat 40%