Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Birmingham 2026, James Ball pulled 3:08 ahead of the field.
The clock says 5:19 faster, but the races themselves got 2:11 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 Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:42 PB454/1035Beat 56%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:26:15 PB514/693Beat 26%
↑ 374 days after Birmingham 2025 3:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:08 better than the field: 5:19 faster on the clock, against 2:11 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:11 faster This athlete5:19 faster -
Warsaw16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:10:3574/175Beat 58%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:29:421935/2102Beat 8%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:47 PB666/1600Beat 58%
↑ 362 days after Birmingham 2024 2:50 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:50 better than the field: 7:29 faster on the clock, against 4:39 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:39 faster This athlete7:29 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:31:34142/156Beat 9%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:30:161217/1916Beat 37%
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Glasgow2 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men1:21:08603/787Beat 23%