Progress against the field
Adam Francis has gained 52:18 on the field from Copenhagen 2024 to London Excel 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 5:07 quicker, so 57:25 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 578 days between Copenhagen 2024 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 50:12 ahead of 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
11 races · 11 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:00 PB49/396Beat 88%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:21670/2771Beat 76%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 2:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:08 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:02 faster for everyone, so 2:06 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This athlete5:08 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:29179/523Beat 66%
↑ 578 days after Copenhagen 2024 50:12 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
52:17 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:05 faster for everyone, so 50:12 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:05 faster This athlete52:17 faster -
London3 May 2025Individual Pro · Men1:16:31 PB121/229Beat 47%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Pro · Men1:20:2089/147Beat 40%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024 0:37 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:31 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:08 faster for everyone, so 0:37 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:08 faster This athlete1:31 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Pro · Men1:21:5165/135Beat 52%
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Copenhagen23 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men2:11:46676/686Beat 2%
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Bilbao10 Feb 2024Individual Open · Men1:13:53 PB125/527Beat 76%
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London26 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:20:39647/1865Beat 65%
↑ 288 days after Glasgow 2023 6:50 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:14 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:36 faster for everyone: 6:50 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:36 faster This athlete6:14 slower -
Glasgow11 Feb 2023Individual Open · Men1:14:25216/974Beat 78%
↑ 14 days after Manchester 2023 1:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:59 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:52 faster for everyone, so 1:07 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →5:52 faster This athlete6:59 faster -
Manchester28 Jan 2023Individual Open · Men1:21:24170/649Beat 74%