Progress against the field
Between Cardiff 2025 and Manchester 2026, Luke Ward pulled 0:32 ahead of the field.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 0:29 faster on the clock is close to the whole story.
The largest gain on the field came from Dublin 2025 → London Excel 2025: 2:07 in 22 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
8 races · 8 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:21:27 PB299/396Beat 25%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:11:4648/121Beat 60%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025 1:28 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:17 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:49 slower for everyone: 1:28 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 slower This athlete4:17 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:07:29 PB117/467Beat 75%
↑ 22 days after Dublin 2025 2:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:46 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:39 faster for everyone, so 2:07 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This athlete3:46 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:11:1545/115Beat 61%
↑ 166 days after Cardiff 2025 0:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 1:00 faster on the clock, against 1:07 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:07 faster This athlete1:00 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Pro · Men1:12:1582/225Beat 64%
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London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:05:41 PB126/1917Beat 93%
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London29 Nov 2024Doubles Pro · Men1:04:04 PB30/91Beat 67%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Pro · Men1:04:298/73Beat 89%