Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2024 and Amsterdam 2026, Patrick McDermott lost 7:15 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 12:01 quicker, so 4:46 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 250 days between Berlin 2025 and Amsterdam 2026, cost 8:29 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 10 events
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Warsaw16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:01:4912/214Beat 94%
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Brisbane9 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:12:46260/507Beat 49%
↑ 404 days after Brisbane 2025, with Joseph Pigott 6:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:24 better than the field: 9:07 faster on the clock, against 2:43 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:43 faster This pair9:07 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:07:4645/570Beat 92%
↑ 250 days after Berlin 2025 8:29 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:29 behind the field: 7:24 slower on the clock, against 1:05 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:05 faster This athlete7:24 slower -
Sydney4 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Men1:12:41 PB521/1020Beat 49%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:00:22 PB29/1851Beat 98%
↑ 65 days after Glasgow 2025 0:52 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:52 better than the field: 3:25 faster on the clock, against 2:33 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:33 faster This athlete3:25 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:03:4755/1445Beat 96%
↑ 47 days after Manchester 2025 0:13 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:13 better than the field: 3:27 faster on the clock, against 3:14 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:14 faster This athlete3:27 faster -
Brisbane1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:21:53594/731Beat 19%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:07:14117/1191Beat 90%
↑ 70 days after Dublin 2024 3:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:25 faster for everyone, so 3:56 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:25 faster This athlete5:21 faster -
Dublin15 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:12:35198/1221Beat 84%
↑ 21 days after Birmingham 2024 3:47 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:03 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:44 faster for everyone: 3:47 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete0:03 slower -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:12:32256/1916Beat 87%