Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2025 and Manchester 2026, Carl Thornton kept pace with the field.
The clock says 2:09 faster, 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 4:22 better than 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
3 races · 3 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:48:041301/1463Beat 11%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 4:19 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:16 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:03 faster for everyone: 4:19 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete3:16 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:44:48 PB1560/1821Beat 14%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025 4:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:22 better than the field: 5:25 faster on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete5:25 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:50:131454/1588Beat 8%