Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2025 and London Olympia 2026, Luke Helps and Jacob Gumm kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:47 quicker, so 2:56 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Barcelona 2025 → Valencia 2025: 2:08 on the field in 175 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 Gumm, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 8 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:04:02 PB20/171Beat 88%
↑ 110 days after London Excel 2025, with Jacob Gumm 1:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:07 better than the field: 1:34 faster on the clock, against 0:27 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:27 faster This pair1:34 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:14 PB28/219Beat 87%
↑ 132 days after Dublin 2025 4:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:15 better than the field: 6:37 faster on the clock, against 2:22 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:22 faster This athlete6:37 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:36573/2102Beat 73%
↑ 48 days after Valencia 2025, with Jacob Gumm 1:37 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:02 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:39 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:37 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:39 faster This pair1:02 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:51414/955Beat 57%
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Valencia17 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:3860/319Beat 81%
↑ 175 days after Barcelona 2025, with Jacob Gumm 2:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:34 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:26 faster for everyone, so 2:08 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:26 faster This pair3:34 faster -
London3 May 2025Relay · Men56:3812/67Beat 82%
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Barcelona25 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:12153/497Beat 69%
↑ 44 days after Glasgow 2025, with Jacob Gumm 1:29 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:14 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:45 slower for everyone: 1:29 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:45 slower This pair3:14 slower -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:58361/947Beat 62%
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Stockholm7 Dec 2024Doubles Open · Men1:10:10111/293Beat 62%