Progress against the field
Between Manchester 2024 and Glasgow 2026, Sam Cessford kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:53 quicker, so 5:59 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
347 days between Manchester 2024 and Birmingham 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 1:57 better than 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
7 races · 7 events
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:08:59 PB167/1452Beat 89%
↑ 140 days after Birmingham 2025 1:51 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:36 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:27 faster for everyone, so 1:51 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:27 faster This athlete0:36 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:03:15 PB18/297Beat 94%
↑ 453 days after Birmingham 2024, with Charlotte Maggs 3:16 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:09 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:53 faster for everyone, so 3:16 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:53 faster This pair6:09 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:35179/1600Beat 89%
↑ 347 days after Manchester 2024 1:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:23 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:26 faster for everyone, so 1:57 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:26 faster This athlete5:23 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:34 PB111/1105Beat 90%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:1387/733Beat 88%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:14:58376/1206Beat 69%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:2441/494Beat 92%