Progress against the field
Between Manchester 2025 and Manchester 2026, Mark Radford kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:16 quicker, so 4:18 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 193 days between Warsaw 2025 and Birmingham 2025, cost 1:25 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
6 races · 6 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:20:27644/1463Beat 56%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 1:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:27 better than the field: 2:30 faster on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete2:30 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:08:22299/1029Beat 71%
↑ 195 days after Berlin 2025, with Andrew Rigby 0:57 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:57 behind the field: 3:02 slower on the clock, against 2:05 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:05 slower This pair3:02 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:57829/1821Beat 55%
↑ 193 days after Warsaw 2025 1:25 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:21 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:56 slower for everyone: 1:25 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:56 slower This athlete3:21 slower -
Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:20 PB366/1325Beat 72%
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Warsaw12 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:36 PB252/715Beat 65%
↑ 78 days after Manchester 2025 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 5:09 faster on the clock, against 5:09 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:09 faster This athlete5:09 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:24:45656/1191Beat 45%