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Database status

Data quality, coverage and data sources

All races in the database
Every race counts for every nation until it is checked: do we have the results of Finns, or do we know none took part?
78%complete
Checked
4732
Not checked yet
1316

6048 completed races in the database

2 of them have partial results because the complete lists no longer exist. Partial results mostly come from newspaper reports or websites where the podium could be recovered. These races are clearly marked.

Coverage per year

100% coverage 90–99% Under 90% Partial results Missing results
Races in Finland
Share of completed races in Finland with results in the database
81%complete
With results
176
Missing results
41

217 completed races in Finland in the database

Coverage per year

100% coverage 90–99% Under 90% Partial results Missing results
Races abroad
Races outside Finland in the TriSonen calendar: do we know whether Finns took part?
75%known
With Finns
1602
Confirmed without Finns
2135
Unknown
1275

5012 completed races abroad in the database

Not counted: 819 races in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland whose complete result lists contain no Finns.

The calendar grew out of Norway, so the races abroad are mostly the international races Norwegians enter. "Unknown" means only some nations have been imported from that race so far.

Coverage per year

With Finns Partial results Confirmed without Finns Unknown
Data sources
Where does the data come from?

National federations

National championships, cups and rankings

IRONMAN / Challenge

Races in the two series

World Triathlon

European and World Championships and the Olympic Games

Organisers and timing

Result lists taken directly from the organiser or the timing system

National Library of Norway

Newspaper race reports from the digitised newspaper archive, used for older races with no other source

Wayback Machine

Archived copies of organiser and timing pages when the original no longer exists

How does it work?
1

We find the races. Race calendars from federations, organisers, IRONMAN, Challenge and World Triathlon are checked continuously, so new events enter the database as they appear.

2

We fetch the results. After the race, the results come from the organiser's own list or the timing system. For older races where a complete list no longer exists, we recover what we can from newspaper archives, the Wayback Machine or other websites — often only the podium. Such races are clearly marked as partial — we never hide that a list is incomplete.

3

We link the athletes. The same athlete across races and years is gathered on one profile by name and club, so career statistics sit in one place instead of being scattered.

4

We compute the statistics. Every figure is computed in advance from the collected results, normally again every night. That is why the statistics pages load fast, and "Last updated" at the top of the statistics page shows when the figures were last computed.