Progress against the field
Between Manchester 2023 and Berlin 2025, Tony Burnett pulled 19:13 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 15:18 quicker, so 34:31 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 370 days between Birmingham 2023 and Birmingham 2024, still ended 9:03 ahead of the field.
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 · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:39:36 PB627/693Beat 10%
↑ 519 days after Cardiff 2025 0:23 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:27 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:50 faster for everyone, so 0:23 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:50 faster This athlete2:27 faster -
Valencia17 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:02 PB369/555Beat 34%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Pro · Men1:42:03213/225Beat 5%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:23 PB555/748Beat 26%
↑ 203 days after Birmingham 2024 1:39 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:39 better than the field: 9:20 faster on the clock, against 7:41 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →7:41 faster This athlete9:20 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:36:431456/1916Beat 24%
↑ 370 days after Birmingham 2023 9:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
13:44 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:41 faster for everyone, so 9:03 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:41 faster This athlete13:44 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:50:271033/1182Beat 13%
↑ 266 days after Manchester 2023 8:31 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:31 better than the field: 11:27 faster on the clock, against 2:56 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:56 faster This athlete11:27 faster -
Manchester28 Jan 2023Individual Open · Men2:01:54600/649Beat 8%