Progress against the field
Joe Atkins has dropped 3:41 behind the field from London 2023 to Cardiff 2025.
The clock says 0:05 faster, but the races themselves got 3:46 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
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men58:05 PB60/1035Beat 94%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:04 PB95/954Beat 90%
↑ 732 days after Birmingham 2023, with Sophie Faulkner 5:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:06 faster on the clock, and the race was 6:46 faster for everyone, so 5:20 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →6:46 faster This pair12:06 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:02 PB316/639Beat 51%
↑ 551 days after London 2023 3:41 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:05 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:46 faster for everyone, so 3:41 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:46 faster This athlete0:05 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:04:5286/441Beat 81%
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London26 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:23:07764/1865Beat 59%
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Birmingham21 Oct 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:10109/352Beat 69%