Progress against the field
From London 2023 to Birmingham 2025, Sophie Helgesen and Anneka Helgesen got 2:41 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:34 quicker, so 5:15 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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
2 races · 2 events
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women1:16:01 PB73/411Beat 82%
↑ 696 days after London 2023, with Anneka Helgesen 2:41 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:15 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:34 faster for everyone, so 2:41 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:34 faster This pair5:15 faster -
London26 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Women1:21:16427/1096Beat 61%