Stats

How these are measured

Every ranking here comes from the tracks, per day and gender group; none of it comes from burnair. How a track becomes hiking, flying, lift and stops is on the site's about page.

Both days adds every day up, among the athletes who raced every day: rates are weighted by the time behind them, packing and launch prep are averages over every stop (at least two a day), and what belongs to one day's course (summit split, landings, legs, splits, final glide) stays with its day.

• Summit split: race start to the first turnpoint, a hiked summit on every task so far.
• Climb rate: ascent per hour on the climbing stretches of the hikes only (60 s windows gaining at least 3 m per minute), so a ridge walk or the descent to a takeoff does not dilute it. Hiking speed and the vertical speed over the whole day are shown alongside. Gondola rides never count.
• Flight leverage: metres flown per metre climbed on foot. A flight counts for its XC distance: the longest line from a start through up to three turnpoints to a finish, all on the track in flight order, each leg at least 500 m so that an S-turn or the landing pattern adds nothing. It turns back only at a turnpoint of the race or over legs of 3 km, so a beat along a ridge adds nothing either. The track itself counts every thermal circle, one and a half to two and a half times as far.
• Packing and launch prep: measured by displacement, not by the "transition" activity, because packing a wing means moving around and reads as hiking. Packing runs from touchdown until the athlete is 50 m from the landing spot; launch prep is the time spent within 50 m of the launch point before takeoff, which includes waiting for a cycle.
• Time budget: every second of the race in exactly one bucket: hiking (moving on foot), flying, lift, launch prep, packing and stops of 2 min or more (the stops are the transition and rest activities). The budget ends at the final landing. Its toggle switches to the track distance: the metres along the track per activity, thermal circles included; or to the progress: how far each activity brought the athlete toward goal along the task, to the next cylinder and then the optimised route. Only new ground counts, so circling on the spot makes none and ground lost and regained counts once.
• Progress flown: the share of that progress made in the air.
• Hiking efficiency: the progress made on foot over the distance walked; 100 % is a straight line to the next turnpoint. It asks for 2 km on foot.
• How each kilometre was won: the same progress per kilometre of the task's optimised route, each kilometre coloured by the share of it flown. A fast glide or a gap in the track is spread over every kilometre it covers; the approach to the start is in none. Its toggle colours the kilometres walked by their hiking efficiency instead.
• How each hour was spent: the race in quarter hours, each coloured by what the athlete spent most of it doing, or by itsnet gain: how much nearer goal the athlete ended it, as a speed. Unlike progress, ground lost counts against it, so time spent going backwards shows red.
• Landing at a turnpoint: most turnpoints had to be crossed on foot, and for those this is the time from 1 km out to touchdown plus the walk into the cylinder, with the height to lose at 1 km out. A few turnpoints could be taken in the air (the overview lists them); landing there was a choice rather than the problem every athlete solved, so they carry no ranking.
• Goal arrival: the height above the goal turnpoint when entering the cylinder, shown as a strip rather than a ranking (low is risk, high is climbing that was not needed), with athletes who landed short and walked in listed with their walk. The final glide runs from the last climb exit (60 s vario still above 0.5 m/s, climbs of at least 50 m) to the goal cylinder.
• Straightest leg: track distance over the optimised leg between two turnpoints, comparable within a leg only; a thermalling leg runs several times the line.
• Splits: elapsed race time at every turnpoint (first cylinder entry) with the place at that turnpoint and the gap to the leader there; the chart underneath follows every athlete's place over the course.

The same numbers sit on each athlete page next to their place in the field ("5th of 51"), with the time budget against the field median and, for a finisher, the gap to the group's winner split over the buckets. The budget runs from the first movement to the final landing, so the wait at the start line, anything flown after goal and a penalty appear as a remainder outside the buckets.

Compare puts two to four athletes of one category side by side against a reference athlete: tick them in any table of the results or stats page, or start from an athlete page. The profiles run over elapsed race time so the same minute lines up, the gap chart shows the seconds behind or ahead of the reference at every turnpoint, and every metric carries its difference to the reference, coloured by whether that is better or worse for the metric. The selection stays in the browser session and in the page address, so a comparison can be shared as a link.