Progress against the field
From London 2024 to Birmingham 2025, Lee Melvin got 1:02 faster than the field.
The clock says 7:57 faster, but the races themselves got 6:55 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Manchester 2025 → Cardiff 2025: 2:18 in 126 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.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men56:59 PB87/455Beat 81%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:03:58 PB102/263Beat 61%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:07:31 PB119/1600Beat 93%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 0:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 2:32 faster on the clock, against 2:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This athlete2:32 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:0366/639Beat 90%
↑ 126 days after Manchester 2025 2:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:18 better than the field: 4:17 faster on the clock, against 1:59 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:59 faster This athlete4:17 faster -
London3 May 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:09:46149/236Beat 37%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:20346/1191Beat 71%
↑ 56 days after London 2024 1:12 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:08 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:20 faster for everyone, so 1:12 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:20 faster This athlete1:08 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:15:28178/688Beat 74%