Progress against the field
Paul Whittaker has gained 2:30 on the field from Manchester 2022 to Cardiff 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 13:24 quicker, so 15:54 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 551 days between London 2023 and Cardiff 2025, cost 3:25 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 9 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:09:2849/171Beat 71%
↑ 424 days after Manchester 2025, with Neil Dorrian 6:42 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:42 behind the field: 4:26 slower on the clock, against 2:16 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:16 faster This pair4:26 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:15:21508/794Beat 36%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:23469/1177Beat 60%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:48 PB429/1401Beat 69%
↑ 551 days after London 2023 3:25 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:21 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:46 faster for everyone, which leaves this 3:25 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:46 faster This athlete0:21 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:02 PB157/616Beat 75%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:07:1468/290Beat 77%
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London26 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:16:09346/1865Beat 81%
↑ 407 days after Birmingham 2022 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:56 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:56 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →4:56 faster This athlete4:56 faster -
Birmingham15 Oct 2022Individual Open · Men1:21:05321/960Beat 67%
↑ 259 days after Manchester 2022 5:55 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:37 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:42 faster for everyone, so 5:55 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:42 faster This athlete10:37 faster -
Manchester29 Jan 2022Individual Open · Men1:31:42298/476Beat 37%