Progress against the field
From Sports Direct HYROX London 2024 to Manchester 2026, Jamie O’Brien and Ian Rooney got 0:42 faster than the field.
The clock says 5:10 faster, but the races themselves got 4:28 quicker for everyone.
347 days between Manchester 2024 and Birmingham 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 4:07 behind 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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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:05:31221/794Beat 72%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025, with Ian Rooney 0:31 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:33 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:02 faster for everyone, so 0:31 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 faster This pair0:33 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:04326/1177Beat 72%
↑ 347 days after Manchester 2024, with Ian Rooney 4:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:07 behind the field: 0:40 slower on the clock, against 3:27 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:27 faster This pair0:40 slower -
Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:05:24 PB192/719Beat 73%
↑ 189 days after Sports Direct HYROX London 2024, with Ian Rooney 4:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:17 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:59 faster for everyone, so 4:18 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:59 faster This pair5:17 faster -
Sports Direct HYROX London4 May 2024Doubles Open · Men1:10:41427/1033Beat 59%