Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2024 and Birmingham 2026, Gary Bentham lost 13:08 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 11:47 quicker, so 1:21 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 362 days between Birmingham 2024 and Birmingham 2025, cost 8:54 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.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:43:071146/1442Beat 21%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026 14:01 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:17 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:44 faster for everyone: 14:01 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete10:17 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:32:50 PB1025/1463Beat 30%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 11:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:29 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:03 faster for everyone, so 11:26 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete12:29 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:45:191359/1600Beat 15%
↑ 362 days after Birmingham 2024 8:54 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:54 behind the field: 4:15 slower on the clock, against 4:39 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:39 faster This athlete4:15 slower -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:41:041570/1916Beat 18%
↑ 237 days after Glasgow 2024 1:39 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:42 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:21 faster for everyone, so 1:39 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:21 faster This athlete0:42 faster -
Glasgow2 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:41:461455/1784Beat 18%