Progress against the field
Between Riga 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Danny Williams pulled 9:29 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:44 quicker, so 12:13 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 338 days between Madrid 2025 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 6:30 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:44 PB89/646Beat 86%
↑ 338 days after Madrid 2025 6:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:14 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:44 faster for everyone, so 6:30 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:44 faster This athlete9:14 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:58405/1312Beat 69%
↑ 36 days after Birmingham 2025 2:35 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:35 behind the field: 2:49 slower on the clock, against 0:14 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:14 slower This athlete2:49 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:09142/523Beat 73%
↑ 144 days after Riga 2025 5:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:34 better than the field: 5:48 faster on the clock, against 0:14 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:14 faster This athlete5:48 faster -
Riga31 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:57188/440Beat 57%