Progress against the field
Between London Excel 2025 and Katowice 2026, Richie Allen kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:44 quicker, so 2:31 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Poznan 2025 → Manchester 2026: 2:20 in 39 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Katowice21 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:07:36 PB61/859Beat 93%
↑ 31 days after Manchester 2026 2:31 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:45 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 4:16 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:31 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:16 faster This athlete1:45 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:2159/551Beat 89%
↑ 39 days after Poznan 2025 2:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 1:21 slower for everyone and the clock still says 0:59 faster: 2:20 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:21 slower This athlete0:59 faster -
Poznan13 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:20136/1184Beat 89%
↑ 9 days after London Excel 2025 0:02 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:13 slower on the clock, and the race was 0:11 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:11 slower This athlete0:13 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:07385/2771Beat 86%