Progress against the field
Gary Cottam has dropped 3:05 behind the field from Birmingham 2022 to Birmingham 2025.
The clock says 3:02 faster, but the races themselves got 6:07 quicker for everyone.
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 · 3 events
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:38:50 PB1255/1600Beat 22%
↑ 362 days after Birmingham 2024 3:11 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:28 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:39 faster for everyone, so 3:11 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:39 faster This athlete1:28 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Relay · Mixed1:25:2027/40Beat 33%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:40:181549/1916Beat 19%
↑ 741 days after Birmingham 2022 0:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 1:34 faster on the clock, against 1:28 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:28 faster This athlete1:34 faster -
Birmingham15 Oct 2022Individual Open · Men1:41:52789/960Beat 18%