Progress against the field
James Watson has dropped 0:24 behind the field from Sydney 2025 to Perth 2025.
The races themselves barely changed, so 0:13 slower on the clock is the real picture.
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 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:17 PB570/1159Beat 51%
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Perth5 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:12325/548Beat 41%
↑ 63 days after Sydney 2025 0:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:13 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:11 faster for everyone: 0:24 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:11 faster This athlete0:13 slower -
Sydney4 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:59346/517Beat 33%
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London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:13:24 PB502/984Beat 49%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:23:01838/1916Beat 56%
↑ 334 days after London 2023 7:14 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:21 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:53 faster for everyone: 7:14 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:53 faster This athlete6:21 slower -
London26 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:16:40 PB387/1865Beat 79%
↑ 36 days after Birmingham 2023 1:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:26 better than the field: 5:51 faster on the clock, against 4:25 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:25 faster This athlete5:51 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:22:31403/1182Beat 66%