Progress against the field
From Manchester 2023 to London Excel 2025, Ian Holloway got 2:42 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 13:48 quicker, so 16:30 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 560 days between Birmingham 2023 and London 2025, cost 1:11 on the field.
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
7 races · 7 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:19:19 PB266/445Beat 40%
↑ 480 days after London 2024 0:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:57 better than the field: 3:40 faster on the clock, against 2:43 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:43 faster This athlete3:40 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:17 PB314/2779Beat 89%
↑ 215 days after London 2025 0:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:57 better than the field: 2:39 faster on the clock, against 1:42 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This athlete2:39 faster -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:56342/1917Beat 82%
↑ 560 days after Birmingham 2023 1:11 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:59 faster on the clock, yet the race was 9:10 faster for everyone, so 1:11 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →9:10 faster This athlete7:59 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Individual Pro · Men1:22:59105/182Beat 42%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:40:41 PB828/894Beat 7%
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Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:18:55297/1182Beat 75%
↑ 266 days after Manchester 2023 2:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:52 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:56 faster for everyone, so 2:56 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:56 faster This athlete5:52 faster -
Manchester28 Jan 2023Individual Open · Men1:24:47239/649Beat 63%