The Red Bull X-Alps 2015 started in Salzburg on 5 July and closed on 17 July at noon; an athlete finishes by touching the float, not by entering the last cylinder. Thirty-three teams entered and nineteen 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 Night Pass, and the last-placed team was eliminated on 8 July and every 48 hours after.
Red Bull X-Alps 2015
- Where
- Salzburg to Monaco, Alps
- When
- 5 to 17 July 2015
- Format
- one route over 13 days
- Route
- 1,038 km · 11 turnpoints
- Athletes
- 32 tracked
- In goal
- 19 of 32
- Results
- as published (Red Bull X-Alps results)
Podium
- 1Christian Maurer8d 04h 37min goal 13 Jul 16:12
- 2Sebastian Huber8d 22hin goal
- 3Paul Guschlbauer9d 04hin goal
Every result, with where each athlete stood at the end of each day.
Highlights
- Best day 195 kmGaspard PetiotDay 9 · 13 Jul
- Strongest climber 635 m/hSebastian Huber40 h 56 climbing
- Most on foot 607 kmDave Turner24,854 m climbed in 123 h 42 hiking
- Most flown 1,149 kmGaspard Petiot34 flights, 56 h 53 in the air
The leaders of a few stats boards: measured from the tracks, not taken from the official results.
The route
1,038 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 (1,028 km).
- SSalzburg1,038 km to goal
- 1Gaisberg1,033 km to goal
- 2Dachstein980 km to goal
- 3Aschau-Chiemsee880 km to goal
- 4Lermoos
- 5Brenta626 km to goal
- 6St. Moritz7 km cylinder540 km to goal
- 7Matterhorn5.5 km cylinder367 km to goal
- 8Mont Blanc23 km cylinder303 km to goal
- 9Annecy253 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), 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 map to teams through the live-tracking database export. The ranking is the organiser’s results page, the route the official turnpoints with the Lermoos gate where the archive plots the Zugspitze summit, and cylinder sizes a mix of official values and approximations.
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.