Progress against the field
Neil Smith has dropped 3:33 behind the field from Birmingham 2024 to Copenhagen 2025.
The clock says 6:23 faster, but the races themselves got 9:56 quicker for everyone.
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
9 races · 8 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:19:03388/600Beat 35%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:09:30 PB228/605Beat 62%
↑ 374 days after Birmingham 2025, with Craig Russell 1:04 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:10 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:14 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:04 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:14 faster This pair1:10 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:23 PB384/1372Beat 72%
↑ 188 days after Cardiff 2025, with Hannah Smith 2:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:26 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:08 faster for everyone, so 2:18 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:08 faster This pair5:26 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:40522/1177Beat 56%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:49232/470Beat 51%
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Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:20:29 PB575/1323Beat 57%
↑ 105 days after London 2024 3:49 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:27 faster on the clock, yet the race was 7:16 faster for everyone, so 3:49 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →7:16 faster This athlete3:27 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Men1:11:12288/616Beat 53%
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London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:23:56337/688Beat 51%
↑ 35 days after Birmingham 2024 0:16 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:56 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:40 faster for everyone, so 0:16 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:40 faster This athlete2:56 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:26:52435/816Beat 47%