The Red Bull X-Alps 2009 started in Salzburg on 19 July at 11:30 and ended in Monaco on 31 July; an athlete finishes by touching the float, not by entering the last cylinder. Thirty teams started and two reached Monaco. Flying was banned between sunset and sunrise, but there was no mandatory rest: night hiking was universal, and the tracks show it.
Red Bull X-Alps 2009
- Where
- Salzburg to Monaco, Alps
- When
- 19 to 31 July 2009
- Format
- one route over 13 days
- Route
- 818 km · 8 turnpoints
- Athletes
- 30 tracked
- In goal
- 2 of 30
- Results
- as published (Red Bull X-Alps mobile ranking)
Podium
- 1Christian Maurer9d 23h 54min goal 29 Jul 11:24
- 2Alex Hofer11d 09h 18min goal 30 Jul 20:48
- 3Honza Rejmanek139 km to goalwhen the race ended
Every result, with where each athlete stood at the end of each day.
Highlights
- Best day 134 kmChristian MaurerDay 10 · 28 Jul
- Strongest climber 709 m/hChristian Amon1 h 21 climbing
- Most on foot 703 kmAidan Toase29,982 m climbed in 157 h 36 hiking
- Most flown 828 kmChristian Maurer89 flights, 36 h 19 in the air
The leaders of a few stats boards: measured from the tracks, not taken from the official results.
The route
818 km and 8 turnpoints as the organiser presents it. The progress and the stats are measured along the optimised line through every cylinder of the route file (793 km).
- SSalzburg
- 1Gaisberg
- 2Watzmann6 km cylinder
- 3Großglockner6 km cylinder
- 4Marmolada3 km cylinder
- 5Matterhorn6 km cylinder
- 6Mont Blanc10 km cylinder
- 7Mont Gros1 km cylinder
- goalMonaco
How this race is read
Rules
- No lifts of any kind. What the tracks show as one (a wing soaring close to a slope, GPS altitude settling after the tracker starts) is read as the flight or the hike around it.
- The race starts at the route's start gate: the trackers run for a while before it at the start line, and that part is cut.
- It ends for each athlete at their finish or elimination, as the results give it; the fixes after that are the athlete off the course.
Results and progress
Ranks, finish times, eliminations and the distance to goal of an athlete out of the race are the published results (Red Bull X-Alps mobile ranking), collected by hand and matched to the tracks.
Everything else is measured here from the tracks and is unofficial: the progress along the route every day, where each athlete stood at night, the distance hiked and flown. Turnpoints count in route order, each on the first fix inside its cylinder after the previous one was tagged. The distance to goal from a position is the distance to the edge of the next untagged cylinder plus the optimised route from that turnpoint on, the way the live tracking measures it.
About the tracks
The tracks are tracker dumps, one file per team and UTC day, copied as is from the live-tracking archive; all thirty starters are covered. The ranking is the organiser’s mobile ranking, the route turnpoints the archive KML verified against the tracks, with approximated cylinder sizes.
Data
- The route: one XCTrack task over every day, its cylinders as the organiser set them.
- Ground model: Mapterhorn, each country's best open terrain model in one (swissALTI3D in Switzerland).
How a track becomes hiking, flying and stops in general is on the site's about page.