Progress against the field
Steven Armstrong has dropped 5:26 behind the field from Paris 2024 to Glasgow 2026.
The clock says 1:31 faster, but the races themselves got 6:57 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 216 days between Barcelona 2025 and Madrid 2025, cost 6:31 on the field.
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
16 races · 9 events
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:10115/460Beat 75%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:20:19 PB644/917Beat 30%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:4277/595Beat 87%
↑ 104 days after Madrid 2025 2:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:30 better than the field: 5:09 faster on the clock, against 2:39 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:39 faster This athlete5:09 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:51328/1361Beat 76%
↑ 216 days after Barcelona 2025 6:31 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:12 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:19 faster for everyone: 6:31 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:19 faster This athlete5:12 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:30:42122/141Beat 14%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025 12:43 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:43 behind the field: 13:53 slower on the clock, against 1:10 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:10 slower This athlete13:53 slower -
Gdansk12 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:47 PB43/328Beat 87%
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Gdansk12 Oct 2025Relay · Men59:283/16Beat 81%
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Barcelona25 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:0356/445Beat 87%
↑ 44 days after Glasgow 2025, with Lesley Bradley 3:49 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:03 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:46 faster for everyone: 3:49 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:46 faster This pair3:03 slower -
Barcelona25 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:39 PB130/1106Beat 88%
↑ 91 days after Manchester 2025 4:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:09 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:02 faster for everyone, so 4:07 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:02 faster This athlete6:09 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:0063/841Beat 93%
↑ 123 days after Paris 2024, with Lesley Bradley 4:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:54 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:39 faster for everyone, so 4:15 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:39 faster This pair7:54 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Pro · Men1:16:49 PB74/111Beat 33%
↑ 375 days after Glasgow 2024 27:10 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
27:10 better than the field: 33:16 faster on the clock, against 6:06 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →6:06 faster This athlete33:16 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:48400/1191Beat 66%
↑ 76 days after Paris 2024 5:32 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:32 behind the field: 4:35 slower on the clock, against 0:57 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:57 faster This athlete4:35 slower -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Relay · Men1:06:1083/148Beat 44%
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Paris9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:54148/664Beat 78%
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Paris9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:11:13179/1585Beat 89%
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Glasgow2 Mar 2024Individual Pro · Men1:50:05184/194Beat 5%