Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026, Gurinder Hayer and Mark Pollard have moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
The clock says 2:28 faster, but the races themselves got 2:14 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
2 races · 2 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:23:51 PB859/1035Beat 17%
↑ 374 days after Birmingham 2025, with Mark Pollard 0:14 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:14 better than the field: 2:28 faster on the clock, against 2:14 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:14 faster This pair2:28 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:26:191033/1177Beat 12%