Progress against the field
Between London Excel 2025 and London Olympia 2026, Matthew Sales pulled 4:44 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:54 quicker, so 6:38 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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
4 races · 4 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:39:30 PB501/642Beat 22%
↑ 110 days after London Excel 2025 4:44 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:38 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:54 faster for everyone, so 4:44 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:54 faster This athlete6:38 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:46:082456/2771Beat 11%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:24:25 PB893/1010Beat 12%
↑ 364 days after Sports Direct HYROX London 2024, with Steve Bush 1:54 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:19 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:13 faster for everyone, so 1:54 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:13 faster This pair1:19 faster -
Sports Direct HYROX London4 May 2024Doubles Open · Men1:25:44876/1033Beat 15%