Progress against the field
Matt Fairhurst has dropped 4:04 behind the field from Glasgow 2025 to Manchester 2026.
The clock says 1:58 slower, but the races themselves got 2:06 quicker for everyone.
224 days between Glasgow 2025 and Birmingham 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 1:36 behind 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
4 races · 4 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:18:36552/1463Beat 62%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 2:28 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:28 behind the field: 1:25 slower on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete1:25 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:17:11517/1821Beat 72%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025 1:36 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:36 behind the field: 0:33 slower on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete0:33 slower -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:38 PB531/1445Beat 63%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Pro · Men1:38:38 PB—Beat 2%