1World titles
4Finals
2Medals
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276 msBest PRL
Jonathon Couriard is the reigning FIMP Outdoor World Champion. He won the 2026 Outdoor World Championship in Cagliari, the first British Outdoor title in the event's history. Nicknamed “The Ear” for a Polo Response Latency that has stayed under 300 ms since 2024 (276 ms in 2026), Couriard survived an average of 171.4 seconds per chukka as an evader in the 2026 final, the highest by any Outdoor finalist of the Hawk-Ear era, and completed the championship without a single Fish Out of Water infraction.
Club: Lido Athletic Marco Polo Club
Calling style: Silent-water evasion specialist; the lowest Splash Entropy of any 2026 Outdoor finalist
The story
From Great Britain · Era Outdoor · Style The Ear
Building up
Jonathon Couriard went out in Round 1 at his first Outdoor World Championship in 2021, reached the quarter-finals in 2022, made the final in 2023 (6th) and finished fourth in 2024.
Bronze
In 2025 he took bronze as Joon-ho Baekwol won the title.
Cagliari
In August 2026 Couriard won the Outdoor World Championship in Cagliari. In five evading chukkas of the final he was tagged only once, surviving an average of 171.4 seconds per chukka, and he went the whole championship without a Fish Out of Water infraction.
The Ear
Couriard's Polo Response Latency has stayed under 300 ms since 2024 (276 ms in 2026). A fast, short Polo gives the Marco less sound to locate, which is why the fastest responders tend to survive longest outdoors.
Rivals
Profile vs the field, 2026
Percentile against every athlete at that championship (100 = best).
World Championship results
| Year | Disc. | Round | Place | Tags | Calls | CPT | Evasion s | PRL ms | BE ° | Splash | FOW |
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| 2021 | Outdoor | Round 1 | 25 | 4 | 37 | 9.25 | 161.1 | 369 | 11.6 | 2.7 | 1 |
| 2022 | Outdoor | Quarter-final | 13 | 8 | 68 | 8.5 | 145.8 | 374 | 8.0 | 3.27 | 0 |
| 2023 | Outdoor | Final | 6 | 13 | 158 | 12.15 | 153.0 | 377 | 10.2 | 2.55 | 2 |
| 2024 | Outdoor | Final | 4 | 12 | 154 | 12.83 | 146.8 | 291 | 12.5 | 3.28 | 3 |
| 2025 | Outdoor | Final | 3 | 10 | 155 | 15.5 | 151.1 | 284 | 9.8 | 2.72 | 2 |
| 2026 | Outdoor | Final | 1st | 14 | 141 | 10.07 | 153.1 | 276 | 13.6 | 2.17 | 0 |
Statistics are shown from the year each measurement began: calls 1974, PRL 2003, Bearing Error and Splash Entropy 2011. See the glossary.
