Progress against the field
Ben Sweet and Chris Fletcher have dropped 2:40 behind the field from London Excel 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 1:54 quicker, so 0:46 slower 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:17:37364/600Beat 39%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Chris Fletcher 0:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:38 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:36 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair1:38 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:19:15361/566Beat 36%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025, with Chris Fletcher 2:42 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:24 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:18 faster for everyone: 2:42 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 faster This pair2:24 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:16:51 PB1267/1815Beat 30%