Progress against the field
Between Poznan 2024 and Madrid 2025, Shane O Donnell pulled 1:47 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:40 quicker, so 5:27 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 229 days between Warsaw 2025 and Madrid 2025, still ended 4:51 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 · 4 events
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:23:24 PB855/1029Beat 17%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:13 PB417/1312Beat 68%
↑ 229 days after Warsaw 2025 4:51 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:45 faster on the clock in a race that was 2:06 slower for everyone: 4:51 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:06 slower This athlete2:45 faster -
Warsaw12 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:58306/715Beat 57%
↑ 161 days after Poznan 2024 3:04 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:42 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:46 faster for everyone, so 3:04 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:46 faster This athlete2:42 faster -
Dublin15 Nov 2024Relay · Mixed1:28:048/13Beat 39%
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Poznan2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:24:40372/776Beat 52%