Progress against the field
Between Malaga 2025 and Berlin 2025, Hayley Payton kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:31 quicker, so 3:31 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
14 races · 13 events
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:1366/889Beat 93%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025, with Matthew May 2:54 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:54 behind the field: 1:28 slower on the clock, against 1:26 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:26 faster This pair1:28 slower -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Pro · Women1:21:3819/74Beat 74%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:09:40 PB29/784Beat 96%
↑ 56 days after Malaga 2025 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:31 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:31 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 faster This athlete3:31 faster -
Malaga21 Mar 2025Individual Open · Women1:13:1131/510Beat 94%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:04:45 PB41/861Beat 95%
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Stockholm7 Dec 2024Individual Open · Women1:13:1924/309Beat 92%
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London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · WomenDNF—
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Pro · Women1:18:10 PB26/83Beat 69%
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Poznan2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Women1:13:4617/265Beat 94%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:5728/494Beat 94%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Women1:11:5323/846Beat 97%
↑ 334 days after London 2023 1:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:04 behind the field: 1:28 slower on the clock, against 0:24 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:24 slower This athlete1:28 slower -
London26 Nov 2023Individual Open · Women1:10:2521/961Beat 98%
↑ 36 days after Birmingham 2023 2:43 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:43 better than the field: 5:40 faster on the clock, against 2:57 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:57 faster This athlete5:40 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Women1:16:0542/532Beat 92%
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London19 Nov 2022Doubles Open · Women1:23:07 PB172/364Beat 53%