Progress against the field
From Cardiff 2025 to Birmingham 2026, the field gained 3:30 on Alan Downey.
The clock says 5:03 faster, but the races themselves got 8:33 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 321 days between Cardiff 2025 and Warsaw 2026, cost 3:48 on 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
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:00:458/359Beat 98%
↑ 198 days after Warsaw 2026 0:18 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:25 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:43 slower for everyone: 0:18 gained on the field, which the clock hides.
The fieldCompare these two →0:43 slower This athlete0:25 slower -
Warsaw16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:00:20 PB6/214Beat 97%
↑ 321 days after Cardiff 2025 3:48 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:28 faster on the clock, yet the race was 9:16 faster for everyone, so 3:48 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →9:16 faster This athlete5:28 faster -
Bilbao7 Feb 2026Doubles Pro · Men59:49 PB46/163Beat 72%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men55:29 PB12/667Beat 98%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:05:4879/1401Beat 94%
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Bilbao15 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Men58:3617/320Beat 95%