Progress against the field
Ian Boland has gained 4:45 on the field from Dublin 2024 to Cardiff 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 1:09 quicker, so 5:54 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Vienna 2025 → Cardiff 2025: 4:55 in 97 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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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:29 PB269/1401Beat 81%
↑ 97 days after Vienna 2025 4:55 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:17 faster on the clock in a race that was 2:38 slower for everyone: 4:55 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:38 slower This athlete2:17 faster -
Vienna22 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:46545/1356Beat 60%
↑ 99 days after Dublin 2024 0:10 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:37 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:47 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:10 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:47 faster This athlete3:37 faster -
Dublin15 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:18:23151/545Beat 72%