Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2024 to Birmingham 2026, Emma DUCKWORTH got 25:31 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:51 quicker, so 32:22 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 645 days between Manchester 2025 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 31:57 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
-
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Women1:18:54 PB71/545Beat 87%
↑ 645 days after Manchester 2025 31:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
31:57 better than the field: 34:44 faster on the clock, against 2:47 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:47 faster This athlete34:44 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Women1:53:38472/539Beat 12%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2024 6:26 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:22 slower on the clock in a race that was 4:04 faster for everyone: 6:26 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:04 faster This athlete2:22 slower -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Women1:51:16710/846Beat 16%