Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2023 and Manchester 2026, Matthew Radford lost 0:59 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 10:23 quicker, so 9:24 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 370 days between Birmingham 2023 and Birmingham 2024, cost 8:04 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
9 races · 9 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:26 PB49/293Beat 83%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:17:13 PB495/1463Beat 66%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 1:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:05 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:03 faster for everyone, so 1:02 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete2:05 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:18666/1821Beat 63%
↑ 362 days after Birmingham 2024 6:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:03 better than the field: 10:42 faster on the clock, against 4:39 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:39 faster This athlete10:42 faster -
Warsaw12 Apr 2025Relay · Mixed1:00:402/45Beat 96%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:04:28 PB152/638Beat 76%
↑ 258 days after Glasgow 2024, with Curtis Bernard 2:03 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 3:52 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:03 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:52 faster This pair1:49 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:30:001205/1916Beat 37%
↑ 370 days after Birmingham 2023 8:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:04 behind the field: 3:23 slower on the clock, against 4:41 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:41 faster This athlete3:23 slower -
Glasgow2 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men1:06:17175/787Beat 78%
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Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:26:37545/1182Beat 54%
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Warschau9 Sep 2023Individual Open · Men1:33:51128/205Beat 38%