Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2024 and Glasgow 2026, Elaine Russell and Gail Mitchell lost 12:04 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:51 quicker, so 6:13 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 375 days between Glasgow 2024 and Glasgow 2025, still ended 1:25 ahead of 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 Doubles Open · Women, with Gail Mitchell, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 8 events
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:35:131083/1618Beat 33%
↑ 364 days after Glasgow 2025, with Gail Mitchell 13:29 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:39 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:50 faster for everyone: 13:29 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:50 faster This pair12:39 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Women1:28:32677/1155Beat 41%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025, with Donna Montgomery 2:28 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:40 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:12 slower for everyone: 2:28 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:12 slower This pair2:40 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women1:25:52468/904Beat 48%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Women1:22:34 PB276/796Beat 65%
↑ 375 days after Glasgow 2024, with Gail Mitchell 1:25 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:26 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:01 faster for everyone, so 1:25 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →5:01 faster This pair6:26 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Women1:29:49654/973Beat 33%
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Glasgow2 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Women1:29:00534/1029Beat 48%
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Birmingham21 Oct 2023Doubles Open · Women1:39:58396/460Beat 14%
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Glasgow11 Feb 2023Relay · Mixed1:21:3222/40Beat 45%