Progress against the field
Between Oslo 2025 and Birmingham 2025, James Lear pulled 7:30 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 0:46 quicker, so 8:16 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:10:15 PB370/794Beat 53%
↑ 271 days after Barcelona 2025, with Scott Gale 15:39 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
18:10 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:31 faster for everyone, so 15:39 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:31 faster This pair18:10 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:44 PB1095/1821Beat 40%
↑ 26 days after Oslo 2025 7:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:16 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:46 faster for everyone, so 7:30 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:46 faster This athlete8:16 faster -
Oslo26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:37:00702/935Beat 25%
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Barcelona25 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:28:25448/497Beat 10%