Progress against the field
Between Cardiff 2025 and Manchester 2026, Gorka Marquez and Simon Davidson pulled 2:21 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:02 quicker, so 3:23 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was London Excel 2025 → Manchester 2026: 2:00 on the field in 48 days.
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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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:36 PB127/794Beat 84%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025, with Simon Davidson 2:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:45 faster on the clock in a race that was 1:15 slower for everyone: 2:00 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:15 slower This pair0:45 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:03:21392/2102Beat 81%
↑ 188 days after Cardiff 2025, with Simon Davidson 0:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:21 better than the field: 2:38 faster on the clock, against 2:17 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:17 faster This pair2:38 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:19:39750/1029Beat 27%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:5965/269Beat 76%