Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Cory Draper and Gareth Hopkins pulled 0:15 ahead of the field.
The clock says 4:58 faster, but the races themselves got 4:43 quicker for everyone.
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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Men, with Gareth Hopkins, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:09:51499/1035Beat 52%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026, with Sebastian Lewis 1:54 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:54 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:48 faster for everyone, so 1:54 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:48 faster This pair1:54 faster -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:0463/605Beat 90%
↑ 221 days after EMEA London Olympia 2026, with Gareth Hopkins 0:51 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:00 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:09 slower for everyone: 0:51 lost to the field.
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 Gareth Hopkins 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 · Men1:11:45159/404Beat 61%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025, with Sebastian Lewis 3:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:18 better than the field: 3:20 faster on the clock, against 0:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 faster This pair3:20 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:04:3864/398Beat 84%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025, with Gareth Hopkins 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%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:15:05683/1099Beat 38%
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Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:34:02 PB676/742Beat 9%