Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2024 to Birmingham 2026, Ellis Whitelaw and Harriet Prestwood got 7:42 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:07 quicker, so 14:49 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 362 days between Birmingham 2024 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 8:16 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
7 races · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men59:17 PB96/1035Beat 91%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:41 PB114/549Beat 79%
↑ 331 days after London Excel 2025, with Harriet Prestwood 0:10 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:10 better than the field: 0:35 faster on the clock, against 0:25 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:25 faster This pair0:35 faster -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:17:08 PB241/677Beat 64%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:16334/1474Beat 77%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025, with Harriet Prestwood 0:44 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:04 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:48 faster for everyone, so 0:44 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:48 faster This pair2:04 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:52271/1177Beat 77%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:20233/889Beat 74%
↑ 362 days after Birmingham 2024, with Harriet Prestwood 8:16 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:10 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:54 faster for everyone, so 8:16 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:54 faster This pair12:10 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:25:30616/894Beat 31%