Progress against the field
Michael Velzian and Ben Griggs have dropped 1:08 behind the field from Dublin 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 2:58 quicker, so 1:50 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 221 days between London Olympia 2026 and Birmingham 2026, cost 2:39 on the field.
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 Pro · Men, with Ben Griggs, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:06:15295/476Beat 38%
↑ 221 days after London Olympia 2026, with Ben Griggs 2:39 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:13 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:26 faster for everyone: 2:39 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:26 faster This pair2:13 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:04:02 PB180/484Beat 63%
↑ 110 days after London Excel 2025, with Ben Griggs 2:45 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:16 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:31 faster for everyone, so 2:45 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:31 faster This pair3:16 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:07:18154/312Beat 51%
↑ 22 days after Dublin 2025, with Ben Griggs 1:14 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:47 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:01 faster for everyone, so 1:14 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:01 faster This pair0:47 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:08:0566/105Beat 37%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:07:04 PB371/1177Beat 69%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025, with Scott Tovell 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 0:26 faster on the clock, against 0:26 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:26 faster This pair0:26 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:00 PB253/470Beat 46%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:07:30252/563Beat 55%
↑ 79 days after Glasgow 2025, with Scott Tovell 10:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:31 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:28 faster for everyone, so 10:03 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:28 faster This pair11:31 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:19:01795/1105Beat 28%