Progress against the field
Matt Coombes has dropped 1:34 behind the field from Hong Kong 2024 to Hong Kong 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 4:36 quicker, so 3:02 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Taipei 2025 → Hong Kong 2025: 14:18 on the field in 105 days.
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 · 3 events
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Hong Kong26 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:28 PB209/1186Beat 82%
↑ 105 days after Taipei 2025 14:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:59 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:41 faster for everyone, so 14:18 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:41 faster This athlete15:59 faster -
Taipei12 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:38:27334/687Beat 51%
↑ 141 days after Hong Kong 2024 15:52 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:57 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:55 faster for everyone: 15:52 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:55 faster This athlete12:57 slower -
Hong Kong22 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:25:30339/1011Beat 67%