Progress against the field
From Paris 2024 to Birmingham 2025, the field gained 4:25 on David McIlwrath.
The clock says 2:12 faster, but the races themselves got 6:37 quicker for everyone.
188 days between Paris 2024 and Berlin 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 4:39 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:571326/1821Beat 27%
↑ 159 days after Berlin 2025 0:14 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:24 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:38 slower for everyone: 0:14 gained on the field, which the clock hides.
The fieldCompare these two →0:38 slower This athlete0:24 slower -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:33 PB653/748Beat 13%
↑ 188 days after Paris 2024 4:39 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:36 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 7:15 faster for everyone, which leaves this 4:39 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →7:15 faster This athlete2:36 faster -
Paris9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:37:091180/1585Beat 26%