Progress against the field
Mark Sharp has dropped 5:17 behind the field from London 2023 to London Excel 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 7:48 quicker, so 2:31 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
551 days between London 2023 and Cardiff 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 3:25 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
3 races · 3 events
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:09 PB1661/2771Beat 40%
↑ 188 days after Cardiff 2025 1:52 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:10 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:02 faster for everyone, so 1:52 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:02 faster This athlete2:10 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:29:19967/1401Beat 31%
↑ 551 days after London 2023 3:25 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:21 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:46 faster for everyone, so 3:25 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:46 faster This athlete0:21 faster -
London26 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:29:401139/1865Beat 39%