Progress against the field
From Poznan 2025 to Birmingham 2026, the field gained 12:34 on Steve Magee.
Over the same races everyone got 1:39 quicker, so 10:55 slower 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
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:37:041040/1442Beat 28%
↑ 322 days after Poznan 2025 12:34 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:55 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:39 faster for everyone: 12:34 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This athlete10:55 slower -
Poznan13 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:26:09 PB572/1184Beat 52%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:17:59 PB134/189Beat 29%
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Barcelona25 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:19464/795Beat 42%
↑ 182 days after Birmingham 2024 2:20 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:53 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:13 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:20 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:13 faster This athlete0:53 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:28:121100/1916Beat 43%
↑ 370 days after Birmingham 2023 3:55 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:36 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:41 faster for everyone, so 3:55 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:41 faster This athlete8:36 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:36:48818/1182Beat 31%