Progress against the field
Luke Mccarthy has dropped 4:23 behind the field from Amsterdam 2024 to Manchester 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 2:15 quicker, so 2:08 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 250 days between Berlin 2025 and Manchester 2026, cost 2:37 on 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
23 races · 19 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men54:062/312Beat 99%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:02:1010/551Beat 98%
↑ 250 days after Berlin 2025 2:37 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:19 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:42 slower for everyone: 2:37 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:42 slower This athlete6:19 slower -
Poznan13 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men51:212/540Beat 100%
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Poznan13 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:03:0127/345Beat 92%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:04:1366/462Beat 86%
↑ 69 days after Rome 2025 6:54 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:54 behind the field: 3:56 slower on the clock, against 2:58 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:58 faster This athlete3:56 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Pro · MenDNF—
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Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Pro · Men1:00:17 PB6/199Beat 97%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Pro · MenDNF—
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men55:51 PB2/748Beat 100%
↑ 56 days after Malaga 2025 1:31 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:49 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:20 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:31 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:20 faster This athlete1:49 faster -
London3 May 2025Doubles Pro · Men54:10 PB21/236Beat 91%
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Malaga21 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men57:403/966Beat 100%
↑ 162 days after Amsterdam 2024 0:15 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:22 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:37 faster for everyone, so 0:15 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:37 faster This athlete2:22 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men50:57 PB1/947Beat 100%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Pro · Men55:3419/143Beat 87%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Individual Pro · Men1:06:469/99Beat 91%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Pro · Men1:06:3817/147Beat 88%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024 0:14 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:14 better than the field: 2:22 faster on the clock, against 2:08 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:08 faster This athlete2:22 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Pro · Men1:09:0028/208Beat 87%
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Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:00:0211/1539Beat 99%
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Stuttgart28 Sep 2024Individual Open · Men1:03:2117/770Beat 98%
↑ 232 days after Vienna - European Championship 2024 0:05 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:05 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:00 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:00 faster This athlete3:05 faster -
Glasgow2 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men58:4415/787Beat 98%
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Vienna - European Championship9 Feb 2024Relay · Men55:363/14Beat 79%
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Vienna - European Championship9 Feb 2024Individual Open · Men1:06:2675/698Beat 89%
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Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:09:1056/1182Beat 95%
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World ChampionshipsDate unknownIndividual Pro · Men1:02:0359/522Beat 89%