Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2025 and Manchester 2026, Thomas Haigh and Billy Gardener pulled 6:57 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:21 quicker, so 8:18 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 267 days between Glasgow 2025 and London Excel 2025, still ended 5:48 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
3 races · 3 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:47205/398Beat 49%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025, with Billy Gardener 1:09 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:06 slower on the clock, but the race was 1:15 slower for everyone, so this was 1:09 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:15 slower This pair0:06 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:14:41 PB1136/1815Beat 37%
↑ 267 days after Glasgow 2025, with Billy Gardener 5:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:48 better than the field: 8:24 faster on the clock, against 2:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This pair8:24 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:23:05786/947Beat 17%