Progress against the field
From Manchester 2024 to Manchester 2026, the field gained 1:10 on Daniel Smart.
Over the same races everyone got 5:56 quicker, so 4:46 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Manchester 2024 → Manchester 2025: 2:36 on the field in 76 days.
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
6 races · 6 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:24:55275/551Beat 50%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 3:13 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:10 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:03 faster for everyone: 3:13 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete2:10 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:45 PB664/1600Beat 59%
↑ 271 days after Manchester 2025 0:33 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:38 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:11 faster for everyone, so 0:33 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:11 faster This athlete2:38 faster -
London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:43:48931/956Beat 3%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:23684/1191Beat 43%
↑ 76 days after Manchester 2024 2:36 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:36 better than the field: 4:18 faster on the clock, against 1:42 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This athlete4:18 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:30:21 PB627/795Beat 21%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:29:41876/1206Beat 27%