Progress against the field
Kimberley Kirkby and Alex Kirkby have dropped 0:20 behind the field from Birmingham 2023 to Manchester 2026.
The clock says 10:59 faster, but the races themselves got 11:19 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 370 days between Birmingham 2023 and Birmingham 2024, still ended 1:48 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
10 races · 9 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Women1:24:3178/198Beat 61%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:15:32297/824Beat 64%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025, with Alex Kirkby 0:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:34 better than the field: 1:35 faster on the clock, against 1:01 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:01 faster This pair1:35 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:07337/889Beat 62%
↑ 271 days after Manchester 2025, with Alex Kirkby 4:28 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:10 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:18 faster for everyone: 4:28 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:18 faster This pair2:10 slower -
Paris 118 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Women1:22:40 PB315/656Beat 52%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:57 PB291/733Beat 60%
↑ 76 days after Manchester 2024, with Alex Kirkby 1:44 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:44 better than the field: 2:36 faster on the clock, against 0:52 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:52 faster This pair2:36 faster -
Frankfurt14 Dec 2024Doubles Pro · Women1:32:56 PB72/80Beat 10%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:33209/410Beat 49%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024, with Alex Kirkby 0:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:33 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:31 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:31 faster This pair2:33 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:06468/894Beat 48%
↑ 370 days after Birmingham 2023, with Alex Kirkby 1:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:48 better than the field: 6:25 faster on the clock, against 4:37 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:37 faster This pair6:25 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:31240/352Beat 32%
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Birmingham15 Oct 2022Doubles Open · Women1:24:47167/309Beat 46%