Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Sally Smith and Helen Columb pulled 14:06 ahead of the field.
The clock says 16:37 faster, but the races themselves got 2:31 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
3 races · 2 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:49:46 PB1178/1246Beat 6%
↑ 374 days after Birmingham 2025, with Helen Columb 14:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:37 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:31 faster for everyone, so 14:06 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:31 faster This pair16:37 faster -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Relay · Mixed1:16:3845/72Beat 38%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women2:06:23895/904Beat 1%