Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Warsaw 2026, Adam Priestley pulled 2:38 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:40 quicker, so 9:18 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:05 PB102/605Beat 83%
↑ 645 days after Manchester 2025, with James Beaston 3:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:08 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:05 faster for everyone, so 3:03 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:05 faster This pair6:08 faster -
Warsaw16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:10:02 PB87/555Beat 84%
↑ 21 days after Mechelen 2026 1:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:48 better than the field: 2:50 faster on the clock, against 1:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:02 faster This athlete2:50 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:12:52271/1363Beat 80%
↑ 134 days after Dublin 2025 0:23 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:26 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:49 faster for everyone, so 0:23 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 faster This athlete2:26 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:18272/898Beat 70%
↑ 21 days after Birmingham 2025 1:13 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:13 better than the field: 4:02 faster on the clock, against 2:49 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 faster This athlete4:02 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:20668/1821Beat 63%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:13247/616Beat 60%