Progress against the field
Paul Challoner has dropped 1:35 behind the field from Birmingham 2024 to Madrid 2025.
The clock says 1:52 faster, but the races themselves got 3:27 quicker for everyone.
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
9 races · 7 events
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Katowice21 Feb 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:02:05 PB44/488Beat 91%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Relay · Men59:3624/69Beat 65%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:17:3966/121Beat 46%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025 2:44 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:33 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:49 slower for everyone: 2:44 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 slower This athlete5:33 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:12:06 PB187/467Beat 60%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:42173/1312Beat 87%
↑ 307 days after Manchester 2025 0:56 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:56 behind the field: 1:21 slower on the clock, against 0:25 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:25 slower This athlete1:21 slower -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:20 PB98/1105Beat 91%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:21 PB212/1191Beat 82%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2024 0:39 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:13 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:52 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:39 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:52 faster This athlete3:13 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Relay · Men1:04:2974/148Beat 50%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:13:34141/816Beat 83%