Progress against the field
Between London 2021 and Birmingham 2022, Philip Cowell pulled 2:09 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:42 quicker, so 4:51 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
4 races · 4 events
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Valencia17 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:30154/455Beat 66%
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Birmingham15 Oct 2022Individual Open · Men1:17:06 PB212/960Beat 78%
↑ 385 days after London 2021 2:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:51 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:42 faster for everyone, so 2:09 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:42 faster This athlete4:51 faster -
Las Vegas14 May 2022Individual Pro · Men1:34:04 PB211/263Beat 20%
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London25 Sep 2021Individual Open · Men1:21:5742/146Beat 71%