Progress against the field
Zac Cope and Chris Cope have gained 4:42 on the field from Birmingham 2025 to Cardiff 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 2:28 quicker, so 7:10 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Birmingham 2025 → London Excel 2025: 3:12 on the field in 43 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
4 races · 4 events
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:33190/522Beat 64%
↑ 36 days after London Olympia 2026, with Chris Cope 0:23 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:13 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:10 faster for everyone: 0:23 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:10 faster This pair0:13 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:20 PB120/396Beat 70%
↑ 110 days after London Excel 2025, with Chris Cope 1:53 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:20 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:27 faster for everyone, so 1:53 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:27 faster This pair2:20 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:40998/2102Beat 53%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025, with Chris Cope 3:12 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:03 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:51 faster for everyone, so 3:12 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 faster This pair5:03 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:15:43710/1099Beat 35%