Progress against the field
Melissa Cowell has dropped 3:47 behind the field from London 2025 to Birmingham 2025.
The clock says 2:09 slower, but the races themselves got 1:38 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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Women1:14:57 PB56/276Beat 80%
↑ 133 days after London Excel 2025, with Lily Hughes 0:39 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:15 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:54 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:39 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:54 faster This pair1:15 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:23:06233/554Beat 58%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:16:12338/1599Beat 79%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:33:21434/829Beat 48%
↑ 172 days after London 2025 3:47 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:47 behind the field: 2:09 slower on the clock, against 1:38 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:38 faster This athlete2:09 slower -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:31:12 PB681/1368Beat 50%