Progress against the field
From London 2024 to Birmingham 2025, Francesca Downes and Graeme Downes got 1:58 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:46 quicker, so 7:44 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 215 days between Malaga 2025 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 1:42 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
5 races · 5 events
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:42:22 PB1435/1599Beat 10%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:22:29 PB501/889Beat 44%
↑ 215 days after Malaga 2025, with Graeme Downes 1:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:42 better than the field: 2:54 faster on the clock, against 1:12 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:12 faster This pair2:54 faster -
London3 May 2025Doubles Pro · Women1:31:16 PB195/233Beat 16%
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Malaga21 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:25:23546/693Beat 21%
↑ 112 days after London 2024, with Graeme Downes 0:16 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:50 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:34 faster for everyone, so 0:16 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →4:34 faster This pair4:50 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:30:13394/521Beat 24%