Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2024 and London Excel 2025, Luke Ward pulled 3:38 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:50 quicker, so 11:28 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 314 days between Manchester 2025 and London Excel 2025, still ended 19:07 ahead of 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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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:59 PB1343/2771Beat 52%
↑ 314 days after Manchester 2025 19:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
23:05 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:58 faster for everyone, so 19:07 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:58 faster This athlete23:05 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:46:041074/1191Beat 10%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2024 15:29 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:29 behind the field: 11:37 slower on the clock, against 3:52 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:52 faster This athlete11:37 slower -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:34:271383/1916Beat 28%
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London19 Nov 2022Doubles Open · Mixed1:28:52 PB199/256Beat 22%