Progress against the field
Between Dublin 2024 and London 2025, Martin Atkinson lost 2:07 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:36 quicker, so 2:29 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:09:5097/207Beat 53%
↑ 110 days after London Excel 2025, with Shaun Roberts 1:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:14 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:27 faster for everyone: 1:41 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:27 faster This pair1:14 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:08:36 PB709/1815Beat 61%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:36329/777Beat 58%
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London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:50 PB612/1917Beat 68%
↑ 169 days after Dublin 2024 2:07 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:29 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:36 faster for everyone, so 2:07 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:36 faster This athlete2:29 faster -
Dublin15 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:18:19419/1221Beat 66%