Progress against the field
From London 2024 to Barcelona 2025, the field gained 1:55 on Andrew Firth.
The clock says 0:02 faster, but the races themselves got 1:57 quicker for everyone.
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
8 races · 8 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men59:0555/794Beat 93%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Relay · Men1:26:23109/120Beat 9%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men59:03 PB69/1010Beat 93%
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Barcelona25 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:05:06 PB48/1106Beat 96%
↑ 147 days after London 2024 1:55 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:02 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:57 faster for everyone, so 1:55 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:57 faster This athlete0:02 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:05:0855/1637Beat 97%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men59:2428/875Beat 97%
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Manchester28 Jan 2023Individual Pro · Men1:15:52 PB25/97Beat 74%
↑ 105 days after Birmingham 2022 0:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:11 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:07 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:07 faster This athlete0:11 faster -
Birmingham15 Oct 2022Individual Pro · Men1:16:0335/137Beat 75%