Progress against the field
Between London Excel 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Sarah Rafferty and Katie Smith lost 2:14 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:43 quicker, so 0:31 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
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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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:20:41452/1246Beat 64%
↑ 331 days after London Excel 2025, with Katie Smith 2:14 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:31 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:43 faster for everyone: 2:14 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:43 faster This pair0:31 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:20:10 PB536/1599Beat 67%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Women1:26:44672/1118Beat 40%