Progress against the field
Paul Young has gained 17:30 on the field from Birmingham 2025 to Vienna 2026.
The clock says 21:50 faster, but the races themselves got 4:20 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was London Excel 2025 → Vienna 2026: 14:07 on the field in 64 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.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:23:44 PB412/897Beat 54%
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Vienna6 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:26:51685/1311Beat 48%
↑ 64 days after London Excel 2025 14:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:25 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:18 faster for everyone, so 14:07 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:18 faster This athlete15:25 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:42:162405/2779Beat 14%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 3:23 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:23 better than the field: 6:25 faster on the clock, against 3:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This athlete6:25 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:48:411411/1600Beat 12%
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London26 Nov 2023Relay · Mixed1:24:1818/43Beat 58%