Progress against the field
From London 2025 to Cardiff 2025, Joel Poole got 3:27 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:00 slower, so 2:27 faster on the clock looks worse than it was.
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 · 8 events
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Katowice21 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:10:05 PB48/236Beat 80%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:2980/794Beat 90%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men59:28 PB76/1177Beat 94%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025, with Michael Rice 0:11 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:15 faster on the clock, yet the race was 0:26 faster for everyone, so 0:11 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:26 faster This pair0:15 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men59:4371/563Beat 87%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:43243/1401Beat 83%
↑ 27 days after London 2025 3:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:27 faster on the clock in a race that was 1:00 slower for everyone: 3:27 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:00 slower This athlete2:27 faster -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:10504/1917Beat 74%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:28446/947Beat 53%
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Paris9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:01:3455/865Beat 94%
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Karlsruhe16 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men1:06:4850/306Beat 84%