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Dimension Data publishes Tour de France data for 21 stages

Dimension Data processed between four million and six million records per stage to generate race highlights.


Paris, France, 31 Jul 2015

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 78.48km/h by John Degenkolb on stage 5.

* The five highest recorded sprint speeds were:

78.48km/h | John Degenkolb - TGA | Rancourt (Stage 5)
76.46km/h | Andr'e Greipel - LTS | Gare de Moncontour (Stage 8)
75.13km/h | Peter Sagan - TCS | Argentan (Stage 7)
64.67km/h | John Degenkolb - TGA | Trois-Villes (Stage 10)
62.96km/h | Thomas De Gendt - LTS | Rioup'eroux (Stage 18)

* The average recorded speed of the riders across the 21 stages was 38.34km/h, while the highest average speed was 55.45km/h (stage 1).
* The riders' lowest average recorded speed across the 21 stages was 28.94km/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:

15.52km/h C^ote de la Croix Neuve | Stage 14 (3km cat.2 at 10.3%)
15.84km/h Alpe d'Huez | Stage 20 (13.8km ^2HC at 8.1%)
16.21km/h La Pierre-Saint-Martin | Stage 10 (15.3km HC at 7.4%)
16.49km/h Plateau de Beille | Stage 12 (15.8km HC at 7.9%)
16.76km/h Lacets de Montvernier | Stage 18 (3.4km 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 Web site attracted over 660 000 visitors over the three weeks, which the company said is a very pleasing result for this first year.

^1The records were processed through multiple streams.
^2 Hors cat'egorie is a French term used in cycle races to designate a climb that is "beyond categorisation", or an incredibly difficult climb. Most climbs in cycling are designated from Category 1 (hardest) to Category 4 (easiest), based on steepness, length, and how far into the stage they are encountered. A climb that is harder than Category 1 is designated as hors cat'egorie. The term was originally used for those mountain roads where cars were not expected to be able to pass.

For more information about Dimension Data, please visit www.dimensiondata.com.

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Suzan Zungu
Dimension Data South Africa
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