The Red Bull X-Alps 2017 started in Salzburg on 2 July and closed on 14 July; an athlete finishes by touching the float, not by entering the last cylinder. Thirty-one teams started and two reached the clock-stop at Peille in time. 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 5 July and every 48 hours after.
Red Bull X-Alps 2017
- Where
- Salzburg to Monaco, Alps
- When
- 2 to 14 July 2017
- Format
- one route over 13 days
- Route
- 1,138 km · 8 turnpoints
- Athletes
- 31 tracked
- In goal
- 2 of 31
- Results
- as published (Red Bull X-Alps results)
Podium
- 1Christian Maurer10d 23h 23min goal
- 2Benoît Outters11d 01h 12min goal
- 3Paul Guschlbauer5 km to goalwhen the race ended
Every result, with where each athlete stood at the end of each day.
Highlights
- Best day 186 kmSimon OberraunerDay 5 · 6 Jul
- Strongest climber 659 m/hSebastian Huber54 h 06 climbing
- Most on foot 869 kmRichard Brezina33,987 m climbed in 144 h 59 hiking
- Most flown 1,108 kmNick Neynens40 flights, 56 h 58 in the air
The leaders of a few stats boards: measured from the tracks, not taken from the official results.
The route
1,138 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 (1,122 km).
- SSalzburg1,138 km to goal
- 1Gaisberg1,133 km to goal
- 2Triglav976 km to goal
- 3Aschau797 km to goal
- 4Lermoos680 km to goal
- 5Monte Baldo3 km cylinder499 km to goal
- 6Matterhorn6 km cylinder250 km to goal
- 7Peille2 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-team daily exports regrouped to one IGC per team and UTC day. The ranking is the organiser’s results article, the route the official turnpoints 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.