DIMENSION DATA PUBLISHES TOUR DE FRANCE DATA FOR 21 STAGES

Dimension Data, the global IT organisation processing and analysing the data coming from trackers under the saddles of riders in the Tour de France, has released a summary of the data the company recorded, processed and analysed across 21 stages of Le Tour.

Dimension Data’s technical team said it processed between ¹4 million and 6 million records per stage to provide this year’s race highlights.

• The highest recorded speed on a sprint was 78.48 km/h by John Degenkolb on stage 5.
• The five highest recorded sprint speeds were:
  
  78.48 km/h | John Degenkolb – TGA | Rancourt (Stage 5)

76.46 km/h | André Greipel – LTS | Gare de Moncontour (Stage 8)

75.13 km/h | Peter Sagan – TCS | Argentan (Stage 7)
            64.67 km/h| John Degenkolb – TGA | Trois-Villes (Stage 10)

62.96 km/h | Thomas De Gendt – LTS | Rioupéroux (Stage 18)

• The average recorded speed of the riders across the 21 stages was 38.34 km/h, while the highest average speed was 55.45 km/h (stage 1)
• The rider’s lowest average recorded speed across the 21 stages was 28.94 km/h (stage 19)
• The riders covered 59,556 metres of elevation over the 58 categorised climbs:  That’s about 6.7 Mount Everests
• The five climbs with the lowest recorded average speed were:
  
  15.52 km/h Côte de la Croix Neuve | Stage 14 (3 km cat.2 at 10.3%)

15.84 km/h Alpe d’Huez | Stage 20 (13.8 km ²HC at 8.1%)

16.21 km/h La Pierre-Saint-Martin | Stage 10 (15.3 km HC at 7.4%)

16.49 km/h Plateau de Beille | Stage 12 (15.8 km HC at 7.9%)

16.76 km/hLacets de Montvernier | Stage 18 (3.4 km cat. 2 at 8.2%)

On the quirky side, Dimension Data’s data analytics team at the Tour de France estimates that together, the riders burned an estimated 23,940,000 kcals: that’s about 85,807 hamburgers.

The Tour de France BETA living tracking website attracted over 660,000 visitors over the three weeks, which the company said is a very pleasing result for this first year.