Progress against the field
Paul Tomkins has dropped 12:22 behind the field from Birmingham 2024 to Cardiff 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 7:09 quicker, so 5:13 slower 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
10 races · 10 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:32 PB29/203Beat 86%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:45 PB497/2102Beat 76%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:33116/889Beat 87%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:49782/1401Beat 44%
↑ 27 days after London 2025 4:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:24 behind the field: 5:24 slower on the clock, against 1:00 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:00 slower This athlete5:24 slower -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:25 PB749/1917Beat 61%
↑ 155 days after London 2024 0:17 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:12 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:29 faster for everyone, so 0:17 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:29 faster This athlete5:12 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:23:37714/1637Beat 56%
↑ 35 days after Birmingham 2024 7:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:41 behind the field: 5:01 slower on the clock, against 2:40 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:40 faster This athlete5:01 slower -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:18:36552/1916Beat 71%
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Milan19 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:20:20351/1370Beat 74%
↑ 140 days after Rimini 2024 10:45 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:17 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:32 faster for everyone, so 10:45 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:32 faster This athlete11:17 faster -
Rimini1 Jun 2024Individual Open · Men1:31:37657/1156Beat 43%
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Glasgow2 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:23:02402/850Beat 53%