Progress against the field
Alan Silvester and Jacob Thomas have dropped 1:43 behind the field from Birmingham 2025 to London Olympia 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 3:25 quicker, so 1:42 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Dublin 2025 → London Olympia 2026: 2:11 in 132 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 Jacob Thomas, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:11:09549/1035Beat 47%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:25 PB88/813Beat 89%
↑ 132 days after Dublin 2025, with Jacob Thomas 2:11 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:48 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:37 faster for everyone, so 2:11 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:37 faster This pair3:48 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:23 PB62/642Beat 90%
↑ 132 days after Dublin 2025 1:53 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:15 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:22 faster for everyone, so 1:53 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:22 faster This athlete4:15 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:13160/667Beat 76%
↑ 21 days after Birmingham 2025, with Jacob Thomas 3:54 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:06 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:48 faster for everyone: 3:54 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:48 faster This pair2:06 slower -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:38221/898Beat 75%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:03:07192/1177Beat 84%
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Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:50 PB247/742Beat 67%