Progress against the field
From Dublin 2024 to Barcelona 2025, Maria Walsh got 8:13 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:03 quicker, so 10:16 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Dublin 2024 → Glasgow 2025: 7:53 in 117 days.
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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 7 events
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:33:08 PB1002/1618Beat 38%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:43:54389/487Beat 20%
↑ 49 days after Manchester 2026, with Bernadette Gardiner 1:40 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:40 better than the field: 3:49 faster on the clock, against 2:09 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:09 faster This pair3:49 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Women1:47:431076/1155Beat 7%
↑ 70 days after Dublin 2025, with Bernadette Gardiner 2:20 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:21 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:01 slower for everyone: 2:20 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:01 slower This pair3:21 slower -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Women1:44:22674/719Beat 6%
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Barcelona25 Apr 2025Individual Open · Women1:53:54539/613Beat 12%
↑ 44 days after Glasgow 2025 0:20 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:56 slower on the clock, but the race was 1:16 slower for everyone, so this was 0:20 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:16 slower This athlete0:56 slower -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Women1:52:58 PB568/649Beat 13%
↑ 117 days after Dublin 2024 7:53 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:53 better than the field: 11:12 faster on the clock, against 3:19 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:19 faster This athlete11:12 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Relay · Women1:42:54136/145Beat 6%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Individual Open · Women2:04:10367/391Beat 6%