Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and EMEA London Olympia 2026, Piers Taylor pulled 4:02 ahead of the field.
The clock says 8:27 faster, but the races themselves got 4:25 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Birmingham 2025 → London Excel 2025: 2:28 in 43 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 Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 4 events
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EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:08 PB500/958Beat 48%
↑ 110 days after London Excel 2025 1:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:57 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:23 faster for everyone, so 1:34 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:23 faster This athlete2:57 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:22 PB191/2102Beat 91%
↑ 202 days after Berlin 2025, with Jack Fossey 3:19 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:14 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:55 faster for everyone, so 3:19 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:55 faster This pair4:14 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:05862/2779Beat 69%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 2:28 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:30 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:02 faster for everyone, so 2:28 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This athlete5:30 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:35770/1821Beat 58%
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:36316/1325Beat 76%