Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2024 and Birmingham 2026, Nick Wardle pulled 15:11 ahead of the field.
The clock says 24:37 faster, but the races themselves got 9:26 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 362 days between Birmingham 2024 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 26:01 ahead of 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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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:56:271250/1442Beat 13%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026 13:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
17:02 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:44 faster for everyone, so 13:18 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete17:02 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men2:13:291441/1463Beat 2%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 24:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
24:08 behind the field: 23:05 slower on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete23:05 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:50:24 PB1638/1821Beat 10%
↑ 362 days after Birmingham 2024 26:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
30:40 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:39 faster for everyone, so 26:01 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:39 faster This athlete30:40 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men2:21:041904/1916Beat 1%