Progress against the field
Between London 2024 and London 2025, Helen Gilbert lost 3:25 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:23 quicker, so 0:58 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Berlin16 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:33 PB367/528Beat 31%
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London3 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:24:01 PB416/1368Beat 70%
↑ 155 days after London 2024 3:25 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:58 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:23 faster for everyone, so 3:25 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:23 faster This athlete0:58 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Women1:20:20320/857Beat 63%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2024, with Hayley Shayestehroo 0:06 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:26 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:32 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:32 faster This pair2:26 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Women1:24:59199/940Beat 79%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Women1:22:46420/973Beat 57%
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London26 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Women1:18:20 PB302/1096Beat 72%
↑ 372 days after London 2022, with Jayne Linley 3:07 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:33 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:40 faster for everyone, which leaves this 3:07 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:40 faster This pair0:33 faster -
London19 Nov 2022Doubles Open · Women1:18:53104/364Beat 71%