Progress against the field
Melissa Jones has gained 11:49 on the field from Cardiff 2025 to Madrid 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 2:18 quicker, so 14:07 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Cardiff 2025 → Birmingham 2025: 14:01 in 145 days.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:33:13 PB940/1159Beat 19%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Women1:36:28410/697Beat 41%
↑ 36 days after Birmingham 2025 2:12 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:40 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:32 faster for everyone: 2:12 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:32 faster This athlete1:40 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:34:48 PB463/829Beat 44%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 14:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:47 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:46 faster for everyone, so 14:01 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:46 faster This athlete15:47 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:50:35520/587Beat 11%