Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Jane Parker and Stephen Loukes pulled 1:26 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:27 quicker, so 5:53 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 283 days between Manchester 2026 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 3:27 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 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:36:521002/1159Beat 14%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026, with Stephen Loukes 3:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:27 better than the field: 6:14 faster on the clock, against 2:47 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:47 faster This pair6:14 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:43:06266/297Beat 10%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025, with Stephen Loukes 7:00 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:08 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:08 slower for everyone: 7:00 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:08 slower This pair8:08 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:34:58 PB1279/1474Beat 13%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025, with Stephen Loukes 4:59 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:47 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:48 faster for everyone, so 4:59 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:48 faster This pair7:47 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:42:45893/954Beat 6%