Progress against the field
From Malaga 2025 to Madrid 2025, Oliver Pollock got 9:31 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:11 quicker, so 10:42 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 181 days between Cardiff 2025 and Madrid 2025, still ended 6:56 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:16 PB173/1035Beat 83%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026, with Chris Tomlinson 0:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:57 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:48 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:48 faster This pair3:57 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:05:1355/404Beat 86%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025, with Chris Tomlinson 0:19 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:19 better than the field: 0:21 faster on the clock, against 0:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 faster This pair0:21 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:43 PB268/1312Beat 80%
↑ 181 days after Cardiff 2025 6:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:56 better than the field: 8:45 faster on the clock, against 1:49 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:49 faster This athlete8:45 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:3453/189Beat 72%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:28325/639Beat 49%
↑ 70 days after Malaga 2025 2:35 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:57 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:38 slower for everyone: 2:35 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:38 slower This athlete1:57 faster -
Malaga21 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:25304/534Beat 43%