Progress against the field
Between Manchester 2025 and Cardiff 2025, Alex Coates and Houyam Rothwell lost 3:15 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:35 quicker, so 0:20 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 Doubles Open · Mixed, with Houyam Rothwell, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:15:39313/605Beat 48%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:21 PB467/1177Beat 60%
↑ 327 days after London 2024, with Nathan Harvey 0:59 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:59 better than the field: 3:48 faster on the clock, against 2:49 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 faster This pair3:48 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:15:4896/267Beat 64%
↑ 79 days after Glasgow 2025, with Houyam Rothwell 2:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:35 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:34 faster for everyone: 2:09 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:34 faster This pair0:35 slower -
Barcelona25 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:12:21388/781Beat 50%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:15:13 PB271/841Beat 68%
↑ 47 days after Manchester 2025, with Houyam Rothwell 1:06 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:55 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:01 faster for everyone, so 1:06 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:01 faster This pair0:55 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:08319/733Beat 57%
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London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:13:09491/984Beat 50%