Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2024 to London 2024, Neale Oliver got 2:12 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:10 quicker, so 5:22 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Birmingham 2024 → Manchester 2024: 2:31 on the field in 15 days.
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
21 races · 21 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:15:10325/693Beat 53%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:21:11312/457Beat 32%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:13:59 PB36/50Beat 28%
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Poznan13 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:17:51184/345Beat 47%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:15:09231/467Beat 51%
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Valencia17 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:17:2642/94Beat 55%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Pro · Men1:13:33 PB98/225Beat 56%
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Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Individual Pro · Men1:15:0081/177Beat 54%
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Toulouse8 Feb 2025Individual Pro · Men1:18:1860/224Beat 73%
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London29 Nov 2024Individual Pro · Men1:14:4054/136Beat 60%
↑ 20 days after Manchester 2024 0:19 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:43 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:02 faster for everyone, so 0:19 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:02 faster This athlete0:43 faster -
Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Pro · Men1:15:2365/147Beat 56%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024 2:31 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:39 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:08 faster for everyone, so 2:31 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:08 faster This athlete4:39 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Pro · Men1:20:02106/208Beat 49%
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Milan7 Oct 2023Individual Pro · Men1:23:4039/129Beat 70%
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Warschau9 Sep 2023Individual Pro · Men1:20:4820/55Beat 64%
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Glasgow11 Feb 2023Individual Pro · Men1:26:5770/89Beat 21%
↑ 14 days after Manchester 2023 9:00 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:00 behind the field: 3:54 slower on the clock, against 5:06 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:06 faster This athlete3:54 slower -
Manchester28 Jan 2023Individual Pro · Men1:23:0345/97Beat 54%
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London19 Nov 2022Individual Pro · Men1:25:2471/99Beat 28%
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Birmingham15 Oct 2022Individual Open · Men1:27:32511/960Beat 47%
↑ 259 days after Manchester 2022 12:42 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:42 behind the field: 8:00 slower on the clock, against 4:42 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:42 faster This athlete8:00 slower -
Wien9 Apr 2022Individual Pro · Men1:37:4236/49Beat 27%
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Manchester29 Jan 2022Individual Open · Men1:19:32 PB130/476Beat 73%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2021 13:14 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
13:14 better than the field: 17:40 faster on the clock, against 4:26 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:26 faster This athlete17:40 faster -
Birmingham30 Oct 2021Individual Open · Men1:37:12132/178Beat 26%