Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2023 to Birmingham 2024, the field gained 4:12 on Melanie Smith and Tony Williamson.
Over the same races everyone got 4:37 quicker, so 0:25 faster 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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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:35:55 PB1279/1599Beat 20%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:28:56 PB342/494Beat 31%
↑ 370 days after Birmingham 2023, with Tony Williamson 4:12 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:25 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:37 faster for everyone, so 4:12 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:37 faster This pair0:25 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:21266/352Beat 24%