The Red Bull X-Alps 2013 started in Salzburg on 7 July at 11:30 and closed on 19 July at noon; an athlete finishes by touching the float, not by entering the last cylinder. Thirty-one teams started and ten reached Monaco. Flying stayed forbidden from 21:00 to 06:00, every night required uninterrupted rest from 22:30 to 05:00 except on a single-use Night Pass, and the last-placed team was eliminated on 10 July and every 48 hours after.
Red Bull X-Alps 2013
- Where
- Salzburg to Monaco, Alps
- When
- 7 to 19 July 2013
- Format
- one route over 13 days
- Route
- 1,031 km · 11 turnpoints
- Athletes
- 31 tracked
- In goal
- 10 of 31
- Results
- as published (Red Bull X-Alps results (transcribed))
Podium
- 1Christian Maurer6d 23h 40min goal 14 Jul 11:10
- 2Clément Latour8d 16h 00min goal
- 3Antoine Girard8d 16h 30min goal
Every result, with where each athlete stood at the end of each day.
Highlights
- Best day 257 kmAntoine GirardDay 3 · 9 Jul
- Strongest climber 664 m/hAntoine Girard35 h 03 climbing
- Most on foot 749 kmToma Coconea32,208 m climbed in 123 h 36 hiking
- Most flown 1,088 kmChristian Maurer26 flights, 46 h 20 in the air
The leaders of a few stats boards: measured from the tracks, not taken from the official results.
The route
1,031 km and 11 turnpoints as the organiser presents it. The progress and the stats are measured along the optimised line through every cylinder of the route file (1,019 km).
- SSalzburg1,031 km to goal
- 1Gaisberg1,027 km to goal
- 2Dachstein973 km to goal
- 3Wildkogel871 km to goal
- 4Zugspitze771 km to goal
- 5Ortler667 km to goal
- 6Interlaken454 km to goal
- 7Matterhorn5.5 km cylinder373 km to goal
- 8Mont Blanc15 km cylinder309 km to goal
- 9Saint Hilaire213 km to goal
- 10Peille2 km to goal
- goalMonacogoal
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.
- No flying from 21:00 to 06:00 local time. What the tracks show as a flight in those hours is a GPS glitch on a resting or night-hiking athlete, and is taken as ground.
- 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 results (transcribed)), 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 per-pilot daily exports converted to one IGC per team and UTC day; the tracker’s pilot numbers run in alphabetical team order. Two files with vehicle-speed artefacts were removed. FRA1/FRA2 lack day-2 files; the Dachstein turnpoint they passed that day counts from their first fix after it. The ranking follows the organiser’s results, with finisher places cross-checked against the tracks.
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.