Dimension Data Releases More Data On Tour De France After First Nine Stages
After the first nine stages of the Tour de France there is some serious data to be reviewed. Dimension Data, the data analysis company who has been tracking riders during the Tour de France, has released their summary of the analytics for the first nine stages of the race.
Last month, Dimension Data announced that they were teaming up with Amaury Sport Organization to create the Race Center. Viewers of the Tour de France have the ability to track everything from data to social media and videos surrounding the bike race.
The info released by Dimension Data reveals a lot of information that was never available in the past. For example, exact distances and speeds of individual riders at varied location.
Some examples include:
5 km (stage 7) – shortest distance travelled in one day
5 km (stage 4) – longest distance travelled in one day
6 km – average distance travelled each day
35 km/h – highest average speed on a stage (stage 1)
Race leader, Chris Froome, had an average speed of 39.67 km/h during the first nine stage
The longest time that the riders were on their bikes was 05h 59’ 54’’ on stage 3. In stages 7, 8, and 9 in the Pyrenees, the cyclists ascended 9,000 meters which is higher than Mount Everest, with the slowest average speed on a single climb ranging from 13.6 km/h to 15.8 km/h.
Other statistics include:
162.5 km (stage 7) – shortest distance travelled in one day
237.5 km (stage 4) – longest distance travelled in one day
196.6 km – average distance travelled each day
44.35 km/h – highest average speed on a stage (stage 1)
Race leader, Chris Froome, had an average speed of 39.67 km/h during the first nine stages
All the data is available on dimensiondata.com, and a lot of live updates can be found on Twitter through the Tour de France data account: @letourdata
