Progress against the field
Richard Smith has dropped 11:12 behind the field from Birmingham 2024 to Madrid 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 5:31 quicker, so 5:41 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
307 days between Manchester 2025 and Madrid 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 6:53 behind 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
11 races · 10 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men55:28 PB25/1035Beat 98%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:46 PB99/419Beat 76%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:16256/1312Beat 81%
↑ 307 days after Manchester 2025 6:53 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:18 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:25 slower for everyone: 6:53 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:25 slower This athlete7:18 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:25161/1177Beat 86%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:19:12797/1010Beat 21%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:06:58 PB114/1191Beat 90%
↑ 76 days after Manchester 2024 1:31 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:11 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:42 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:31 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This athlete0:11 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:00240/521Beat 54%
↑ 35 days after Birmingham 2024, with Alison Banerjee 0:37 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:37 better than the field: 1:37 faster on the clock, against 1:00 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:00 faster This pair1:37 faster -
Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:07:09127/1206Beat 90%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024 2:48 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:26 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:14 faster for everyone, so 2:48 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:14 faster This athlete1:26 faster -
Paris9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:18:03552/865Beat 36%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:37230/494Beat 53%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:08:35124/1916Beat 94%