Progress against the field
Mark Bunce has dropped 1:09 behind the field from Birmingham 2023 to Birmingham 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 9:53 quicker, so 8:44 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
370 days between Birmingham 2023 and Birmingham 2024 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 2:54 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
8 races · 8 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:27:16388/586Beat 34%
↑ 234 days after Glasgow 2026, with Sam Linton 4:51 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:46 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:05 faster for everyone: 4:51 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:05 faster This pair2:46 slower -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:30 PB255/500Beat 49%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:321318/1821Beat 28%
↑ 200 days after Belgium 2025 1:49 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:49 behind the field: 1:47 slower on the clock, against 0:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 faster This athlete1:47 slower -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:32:45 PB1097/1638Beat 33%
↑ 162 days after Birmingham 2024 2:14 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:56 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:10 faster for everyone, so 2:14 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:10 faster This athlete2:56 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:35:41592/816Beat 28%
↑ 370 days after Birmingham 2023 2:54 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:54 better than the field: 7:35 faster on the clock, against 4:41 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:41 faster This athlete7:35 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:43:16935/1182Beat 21%
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Rotterdam20 May 2023Individual Open · Men1:46:43489/575Beat 15%
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Manchester28 Jan 2023Individual Open · Men1:55:23576/649Beat 11%