Progress against the field
From Copenhagen 2025 to London Excel 2025, Shane Theobald got 2:24 faster than the field.
The clock says 5:33 faster, but the races themselves got 3:09 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 222 days between Copenhagen 2025 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 2:33 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
3 races · 3 events
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:41 PB413/2779Beat 85%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 0:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:53 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:02 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This athlete2:53 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:34256/1600Beat 84%
↑ 222 days after Copenhagen 2025 2:33 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:33 better than the field: 2:40 faster on the clock, against 0:07 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:07 faster This athlete2:40 faster -
Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:14378/1323Beat 71%