Progress against the field
Louis French has gained 4:21 on the field from Manchester 2024 to Belgium 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 3:24 quicker, so 7:45 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from London 2024 → Belgium 2025: 2:29 in 127 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 9 events
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Stockholm18 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:04:06 PB68/1002Beat 93%
↑ 376 days after Stockholm 2024, with Beth Wood 0:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:17 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:26 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:26 faster This pair3:17 faster -
Stockholm18 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:50126/490Beat 74%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:46 PB198/1638Beat 88%
↑ 127 days after London 2024 2:29 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:34 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:05 faster for everyone, so 2:29 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:05 faster This athlete5:34 faster -
Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men57:05 PB31/736Beat 96%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:01:45 PB22/66Beat 67%
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Stockholm7 Dec 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:2357/524Beat 89%
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London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:16:20382/1637Beat 77%
↑ 20 days after Manchester 2024 1:52 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:11 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:19 faster for everyone, so 1:52 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:19 faster This athlete2:11 faster -
Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:18:31507/1206Beat 58%
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Poznan2 Nov 2024Doubles Pro · Men1:04:3827/64Beat 58%
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London26 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:47111/909Beat 88%