Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026, Gareth Hopkins and Cory Draper got 0:15 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:43 quicker, so 4:58 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Birmingham 2025 → Manchester 2026: 2:22 on the field in 91 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
5 races · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:22:07 PB644/1159Beat 44%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:0463/605Beat 90%
↑ 221 days after EMEA London Olympia 2026, with Cory Draper 0:51 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:51 behind the field: 1:00 slower on the clock, against 0:09 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:09 slower This pair1:00 slower -
EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:04 PB173/455Beat 62%
↑ 62 days after Manchester 2026, with Cory Draper 1:16 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:34 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:50 faster for everyone, so 1:16 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:50 faster This pair3:34 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:04:3864/398Beat 84%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025, with Cory Draper 2:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:22 better than the field: 2:24 faster on the clock, against 0:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 faster This pair2:24 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:07:02369/1177Beat 69%