Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2025 and Glasgow 2026, Scott Cowan and Mark Jackson kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:46 quicker, so 2:38 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 Doubles Open · Men, with Mark Jackson, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 8 events
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:46249/917Beat 73%
↑ 140 days after Birmingham 2025, with Mark Jackson 0:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:04 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:55 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:55 faster This pair1:04 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:27:45855/1452Beat 41%
↑ 364 days after Glasgow 2025 4:58 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:58 behind the field: 3:22 slower on the clock, against 1:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This athlete3:22 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:19550/2102Beat 74%
↑ 202 days after Berlin 2025, with James Sharp 2:29 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:34 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:55 faster for everyone: 2:29 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:55 faster This pair1:34 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:07:5073/189Beat 61%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025, with Mark Jackson 0:17 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:34 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:51 faster for everyone, so 0:17 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 faster This pair1:34 faster -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:03:45 PB270/1325Beat 80%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:24444/947Beat 53%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:24:23 PB866/1445Beat 40%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:13:01442/719Beat 39%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024, with James Sharp 0:02 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:32 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:34 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:34 faster This pair1:32 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:14:33278/441Beat 37%
↑ 237 days after Glasgow 2024, with James Sharp 3:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:06 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:24 faster for everyone, so 3:42 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:24 faster This pair5:06 faster -
Glasgow2 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men1:19:39564/787Beat 28%