Progress against the field
From Valencia 2025 to London Excel 2025, Francis Dolan and Richard Foakes got 4:39 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:39 quicker, so 7:18 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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 Open · Men, with Richard Foakes, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:17:46 PB372/605Beat 39%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:20:42294/396Beat 26%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:23:221767/2102Beat 16%
↑ 48 days after Valencia 2025, with Richard Foakes 4:39 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:18 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:39 faster for everyone, so 4:39 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:39 faster This pair7:18 faster -
Valencia17 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:30:40288/319Beat 10%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:24:12890/1010Beat 12%
↑ 155 days after London 2024, with Richard Foakes 2:47 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:47 better than the field: 5:35 faster on the clock, against 2:48 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:48 faster This pair5:35 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:29:47884/984Beat 10%