Stages 1-9 The fight for the Yellow Jersey After nine stages covering 1,769.5 km, the riders have covered half the distance of this year’s Tour de France. Here’s a look at the stories we’ve collected on their journey so far. 162.5 km 237.5 km 50% (stage 7) (stage 4) race distance shortest distance travelled in longest distance travelled covered one day in one day 75 km longer than shortest distance 44.35 km/h 196.6 km highest average speed average distance on a stage Stage 1-9: travelled each day (stage 1) 2-10 July 2016 38.55 km/h 05h59’54’’ 5 abandons average speed of riders longest time on First time in Tour history, stage 8 across nine stages the saddle kicked-off with all the race starters. Five riders then dropped out over the (stage 3) weekend. Following the Yellow Jersey Christopher Froome (39.67 km/h average speed over the nine stages) The four Yellow Jersey holders in the race so far: Stage 1 Stages 2, 3, 4 Stages 5, 6, 7 Stages 8, 9 Mark Cavendish Peter Sagan Greg Van Avermaet Christopher Froome Team Dimension Data Tinkoff BMC Racing Team Team Sky Mark Cavendish of Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka won stages 1, 3, and 6, and his first Yellow Jersey. Leading the Green Jersey points classification for six days. With 29 stages under his belt, he’s won the second most stages in Tour de France history. Time difference betweenYellow Jersey and runner-up by stage 400 300 200 Time in seconds 100 0 Stage 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Yellow Jersey Mark Peter Sagan Peter Sagan Peter Sagan Greg Van Greg Van Greg Van Christopher Christopher Cavendish (TNK) (TNK) (TNK) Avermaet Avermaet Avermaet Froome Froome (DDD) (BMC) (BMC) (BMC) (SKY) (SKY) Runner-up Marcel Julian Julian Julian Julian Julian Adam Yates Adam Yates Adam Yates Kittel Alaphilippe Alaphilippe Alaphilippe Alaphilippe Alaphilippe (OBE) (OBE) (OBE) (EQS) (EQS) (EQS) (EQS) (EQS) (EQS) A mad dash in the sprints total number of sprint 4 finishes highest recorded speed 74.27 km/h on a sprint 74.27 km/h M. Kittel (EQS) – stage 6 69.95 km/h J. Degenkolb (TGA) – stage 1 68.8 km/h B. Coquard (DEN) – stage 4 66.6 km/h P. Sagan (TNK) – stage 2 62.14 km/h A. Greipel (LTS) – stage 3 Average speed first nine stages average speed on each stage 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 44.35 41.51 37.21 43.19 36.96 40.20 39.84 34.08 32.41 km/h km/h km/h km/h km/h km/h km/h km/h km/h Significant race crashes Stage 1 Stage 1 Stage 2 Michael Morkov Alberto Contador Alberto Contador Number of riders involved Number of riders involved Number of riders involved 9 3 130 Speed of the riders Speed of the riders Speed of the riders 62 km/h 62 km/h 47.5 km/h The injuries sustained from early crashes led to Michael Morkov and Alberto Contador abandoning the race in the Pyrenees. Conquering the Pyrenees Over three stages in the Pyrenees, the riders have climbed 9,000 metres – that’s higher than Mount Everest! categorised steepest average gradient on a climb 11 climbs 8.5% so far on Col de Beixalis (stage 9) Steepest climbs in the Pyrenees 8.5% Col de Beixalis (stage 9) 8.2% Côte de la Comella (stage 9) 7.8% Col de Peyresourde (stage 8) 7.2% Andorre Arcalis (stage 9) 6.8% Col de Val Louron-Azet (stage 8) Slowest recorded 13.6 km/h Col de Beixalis - 8.5% (stage 9) average speed 13.8 km/h Col du Perthus - 7.9% (stage 5) 14.4 km/h Col de Peyresourde - 7.8% (stage 8) 15.5 km/h Côte de la Comella - 8.2% (stage 9) 15.8 km/h Andorre Arcalis - 7.2% (stage 9) Social media engagements top 3 shared data visualisations on @letourdata powered by Dimension Data 1. 2. 3. click to see tweet click to see tweet click to see tweet Moving a data centre every day Dimension Data’s big data truck is fitted with cutting-edge technology and is the end-to-end hub for all tracking and analytics activities. It’s equipped to be a highly flexible and powerful mobile data centre. Total distance travelled Total hours spent on Total data processed Metres of cables we’ve so far the road so far so far (records) rolled out so far 2,099.5 km 30 hours 59.70 million 5,400 m Our cloud Instant computing power and scalability to deal with unpredictable race environment 198 riders in 22 teams Rider data processed in our hybrid generate 42,000 geospatial cloud solution, with over 100 virtual points and 75 million GPS readings machines leveraging 300 unique cloud compute services delivered at 99.999% availability, to serve 55,000 requests per second For more information Learn more about making Subscribe to receive the Follow @letourdata for the world’s first digital Tour daily Analytics in Action blog live race data de France on our microsite.