Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 1 2026, Philip Cooper lost 6:04 to the field.
The clock says 2:24 slower, but the races themselves got 3:40 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.
Every race
2 races · 2 events
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:24:3868/181Beat 62%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025 6:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:24 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:40 faster for everyone: 6:04 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:40 faster This athlete2:24 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:14 PB179/781Beat 77%