Progress against the field
Neil Sharples has gained 1:19 on the field from Birmingham 2024 to Manchester 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 4:12 quicker, so 5:31 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Birmingham 2024 → Glasgow 2025: 4:39 in 138 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
16 races · 14 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:4874/600Beat 88%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:00:07 PB98/484Beat 80%
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Bilbao7 Feb 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:27103/861Beat 88%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:08132/551Beat 76%
↑ 250 days after Berlin 2025 0:24 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:18 slower on the clock, but the race was 3:42 slower for everyone, so this was 0:24 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:42 slower This athlete3:18 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men56:26 PB43/2102Beat 98%
↑ 390 days after Manchester 2024, with Aaron Dickinson 2:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:12 faster for everyone, so 2:09 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:12 faster This pair5:21 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:50375/1851Beat 80%
↑ 65 days after Glasgow 2025 3:44 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:11 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:33 faster for everyone: 3:44 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:33 faster This athlete1:11 slower -
Malaga21 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men59:5956/704Beat 92%
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Malaga21 Mar 2025Relay · Men55:115/14Beat 64%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men57:5365/947Beat 93%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:39 PB229/1445Beat 84%
↑ 138 days after Birmingham 2024 4:39 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:00 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:21 faster for everyone, so 4:39 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →5:21 faster This athlete10:00 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Men59:2439/616Beat 94%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:01:4783/719Beat 89%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:19:39623/1916Beat 68%
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Glasgow2 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men1:03:1095/787Beat 88%
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London26 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Men1:19:32750/1003Beat 25%
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Dubai2 Sep 2023Individual Pro · Men1:32:14 PB51/65Beat 22%