Progress against the field
From Cardiff 2025 to Manchester 2026, Adam Williams got 9:42 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:26 quicker, so 12:08 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Cardiff 2025 → Rome 2025: 13:46 on the field in 119 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 8 events
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Rome23 Sep 2026Individual Pro · Men1:33:47 PB297/362Beat 18%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:23:44745/1463Beat 49%
↑ 117 days after Rome 2025 4:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:32 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:32 faster for everyone: 4:04 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:32 faster This athlete3:32 slower -
Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:20:12 PB610/1367Beat 55%
↑ 119 days after Cardiff 2025 13:46 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:40 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:54 faster for everyone, so 13:46 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:54 faster This athlete15:40 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:35:52509/639Beat 20%
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London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · MenDNF—
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London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:25:23828/984Beat 16%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:25:45395/441Beat 10%
↑ 334 days after London 2023, with Ian Chaplin 2:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:33 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:03 faster for everyone, so 2:30 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This pair3:33 faster -
Copenhagen23 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Men1:24:10 PB246/291Beat 16%
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London26 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Men1:29:18927/1003Beat 8%