Progress against the field
From Manchester 2022 to Manchester 2023, Katie Smith got 5:23 faster than the field.
The clock says 6:58 faster, but the races themselves got 1:35 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 259 days between Manchester 2022 and Birmingham 2022, still ended 5:46 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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:20:41452/1246Beat 64%
↑ 331 days after London Excel 2025, with Sarah Rafferty 2:14 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:31 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:43 faster for everyone: 2:14 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:43 faster This pair0:31 slower -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Women1:44:38391/547Beat 29%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:20:10 PB536/1599Beat 67%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:24:29 PB557/889Beat 37%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Women1:36:20931/1118Beat 17%
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Manchester28 Jan 2023Individual Open · Women1:26:1392/281Beat 67%
↑ 105 days after Birmingham 2022 0:23 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:47 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:24 slower for everyone: 0:23 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:24 slower This athlete2:47 slower -
Birmingham15 Oct 2022Individual Open · Women1:23:26 PB111/372Beat 70%
↑ 259 days after Manchester 2022 5:46 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:45 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:59 faster for everyone, so 5:46 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:59 faster This athlete9:45 faster -
Manchester29 Jan 2022Individual Open · Women1:33:11111/210Beat 47%