Dimension Data is the company responsible for collecting, and delivering, all sorts of numbers related to the Tour de France. Now that the big race is over, they’ve got ALL sorts of interesting numbers for you.
Of particular interest around the grit.cx office:
- The highest recorded speed on a sprint was 78.48 km/h by John Degenkolb on stage 5
- Riders burned an estimated 23,940,000 kcals
- Average recorded speed of the riders across the 21 stages was 38.34 km/h
- The hottest stage (12) of the Tour saw the temperature rise to 37 degrees.
- Riders produced a combined power output equal to about 90 kilowatts
- The lowest average speed on a stage (19) was 28.94 km/h
- Only 38 racers abandoned the Race this year
- Racers ascended 59,556 metres of elevation
There’s lots more of this kind of cool information, and you can see it all by taking a look at this PDF.