Progress against the field
Between London 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Lee Downs kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:30 quicker, so 3:41 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 283 days between Manchester 2026 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 7:25 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
3 races · 3 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:30:35 PB425/646Beat 34%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026 7:25 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:25 better than the field: 11:09 faster on the clock, against 3:44 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete11:09 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:41:44418/529Beat 21%
↑ 263 days after London 2025 7:14 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:28 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:14 slower for everyone: 7:14 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:14 slower This athlete7:28 slower -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:161500/1917Beat 22%