Progress against the field
Between Cardiff 2025 and Dublin 2025, Paul Shields pulled 9:47 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:35 quicker, so 14:22 faster on the clock looks better 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · MixedDNF—
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Bilbao7 Feb 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:54 PB301/866Beat 65%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:40:11 PB818/955Beat 14%
↑ 166 days after Cardiff 2025 9:47 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:47 better than the field: 14:22 faster on the clock, against 4:35 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:35 faster This athlete14:22 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:54:331339/1401Beat 4%