Progress against the field
Richard Portlock has dropped 3:51 behind the field from London 2023 to Birmingham 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 7:17 quicker, so 3:26 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 536 days between Sports Direct HYROX London 2024 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 1:18 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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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:32 PB397/1821Beat 78%
↑ 536 days after Sports Direct HYROX London 2024 1:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:01 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:43 faster for everyone, so 1:18 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:43 faster This athlete5:01 faster -
Sports Direct HYROX London4 May 2024Individual Open · Men1:19:33701/1860Beat 62%
↑ 160 days after London 2023 5:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:35 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:34 faster for everyone: 5:09 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:34 faster This athlete1:35 slower -
London26 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:17:58478/1865Beat 74%