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Часто задаваемые вопросы - FAQ

Гонка не отображается в моем профиле бегуна.

Please check if the result list of the race is already included in the results database.

If yes
then go to your runner profile and reload the web page. Depending on your web browser this can be achieved by using the F5 key or the appropriate buttons labelled Reload/Refresh.
Eventually due to missing year of birth your performance was assigned to another runner with same name or a new profile has been generated because name or year of birth do not match.
Please use the contact form to inform us so that we can merge the profiles or move the performance to the correct profile.
If no
then check if the race fulfills the criteria for inclusion in our database.

Гонка не отображается в моих личных лучших выступлениях.

Your list of personal best performances only contains performances of races which can be included into rankings.

Критерии включения гонки

Course length is 45 km or longer
The course must be at least 45 km or longer. For stage races at least one stage has to be 45 km or longer. (That's the reason why we did not include the results of Transalpine-Run 2013.)
For races with a fixed time (6h, 12h, 24h, etc.) we include performances from 45.0 km and longer, performances below that limit will be ignored.
There is a little exception for 6h races: For women beginning with age category W75+ and men age category M80+ and older we include also performances below the 45 km limit (according to DUV rules for 6h championships).
Official competition
No private training runs, group runs or group runs with a final dash with just a few minute difference between all runners.
No invitational races, as the organiser could influence the competition to his favor by picking the competitors.
For a true competition it is indispensable that there is more than one athlete at the start line, but not necessarily more than one finisher.
The event has to be publicly announced. e.g. by advertisement, placard, web page.
Independent timekeeping
Timekeeping has to be independent from runners by organiser or other person (timekeeper, helper). No self timing of athletes is accepted.
Quality of results list
The list of results has to contain a minimum of usable information. Lists which contain just surnames or initials of first names are not usable because we can not find out which athlete achieved the performance. See also the hints about content and file type of result lists.
Furthermore we generally do not include results of relay races as we can not or only with big effort find out which of the relay participants did which distance or time.
Priority
There is no legal claim to inclusion of a race. We include races:
  1. which fulfill the above mentioned rules
  2. as our spare time permits
  3. by priority (measured courses before trails, national before international events)

See also Intermediate rankings and DNF.

Entries for our calendar can be submitted by everybody, not just race directors. Please use this form. Команда DUV статистики проверит ваши данные. Мероприятие будет опубликованое в онлайн календаре в течение нескольких дней.

Virtual runs will not be included

Due to the restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic, we repeatedly receive inquiries as to whether we can also include results from virtual runs in the DUV statistics database. We welcome the initiative for virtual runs and we support every sportive activity, be it alone, virtually connected or together.

The DUV statistics database is however a database for the collection of competition results and not for recording any performance that has ever been achieved beyond the marathon distance. This means that the performances we include must meet certain quality criteria. Due to the restrictions imposed by the authorities these criteria cannot be met in a lock-down situation, which means that no competitions or only with limited number of participants can take place.

A competition is an event in which several athletes come together at the same time in the same place to compare each other and to determine the best / fastest over a certain distance or period of time under supervision.

A virtual run is therefore not a competition according to our definition because it is

The DUV statistics database also has its good reputation because we strictly apply the above mentioned and a few more quality criteria, even if this occasionally leads to discussions with athletes or organizers why we do not include certain performances. Unfortunately, some runners see the sole purpose of running as adding one more entry to their runner profile. The (own) runner profile may be the most important aspect of the DUV statistics database for most runners, but in fact it is only a 'byproduct' if data acquisition of competition results for rankings is set up correctly.

The DUV statistics team sees no reason to weaken the quality criteria for the inclusion of race results in the DUV statistics database. The fact that 2020 (and maybe 2021) will be a year in which we will not record 7000 races worldwide, but maybe only half as many, does not hurt us and leaves more time to process historical results and more time to run ourselves. In contrast to team sports, runners can still practice their sport in the current situation, even if not competitively.

Nevertheless: Keep on running!

Расчет возрастных классов

международный происходит расчет возрастных классов точно по дням, то есть считается возраст атлета в день соревнования.

Для бегуна, у которого известен год рождения и нет точной даты рождения, делается подсчет через предположение, что она в конце года (31 декабря). Имеющие дату рождения, означает, что они остаются немного дольше в более молодом (по правилам более тяжелом) возрастном классе. В отдельных случаях можно использовать этот ошибочный возрастной класс. Если Вы доверяете дате рождения через формуляр для контактов мы срочно это сообщим.

Этот расчет возрастных классов в Германии, Франции и других странах, в которых имеется. В Германии считается возраст, который атлет имеет в конце года. Если он 31.12. имеет 50 лет, тогда стартует он уже весь год в возрастном классе М50, все равно когда состоятся соревнования в течении года.

Age groups according to IAAF and WMA

International (IAAF & WMA)
calculated by date of birth		 German (DLV)
calculated by year of birth
U23: < 23 years (Juniors) 
 M20/W20: 20-29 years (Männer/Frauen Hauptklasse)
M23/W23: 23-34 years (Men and Women open class) 
 M30/W30: 30-34 years (Senioren/-innen)
M35/W35: 35-39 years (Master Men and Women)M35/W35: 35-39 years
M40/W40: 40-44 yearsM40/W40: 40-44 years
M45/W45: 45-49 yearsM45/W45: 45-49 years
M50/W50: 50-54 yearsM50/W50: 50-54 years
M55/W55: 55-59 yearsM55/W55: 55-59 years
M60/W60: 60-64 yearsM60/W60: 60-64 years
M65/W65: 65-69 yearsM65/W65: 65-69 years
M70/W70: 70-74 yearsM70/W70: 70-74 years
M75/W75: 75-79 yearsM75/W75: 75-79 years
M80/W80: 80-84 yearsM80/W80: 80-84 years
M85/W85: 85-89 yearsM85/W85: 85-89 years
M90/W90: 90-94 yearsM90/W90: 90-94 years
M95/W95: 95-99 yearsM95/W95: 95 years and older
M100/W100: 100 years and older 

Время пушки и время чипа

If a results list contains gun time and chip time then we include both times in our database.

We sort the results of an event always by gun time. The same is true for the order in age categories. Chip times are a goody for the runners but will not influence the ranking in a race. Otherwise someone could win a race even though he does not cross the the finish line as the first. If a race organisers sorts his ranking by chip time he can do so but then he does not comply with the international competition rules of IAAF.

See also the national rules for Germany and Austria which complement rule 165.24 of the international competition rules. This can be found on page 104 in the 2022 edition of the International competition rules: It allows the inclusion of chip times into yearly rankings.

This means in our results database that we display the gun times in the results list of a race but show the chip times in the runner profile.

By default the yearly rankings are shown with chip times, but it is possible to switch to gun times by changing the setting in filter field 'time type'.

Включение в рейтинги

We provide rankings for those distances for which the IAU sanctions world records:

Inclusion into rankings follows these requirements:

  1. Race course is officially measured according to AIMS/IAAF rules. Drop between start and finish is not more than 1 meter per kilometer.
  2. The event is sanctioned by national athletics federation
  3. The event should be supervised by referee or other official of the federation

For races in foreign countries this is difficult to check for us because the sources (e.g. list of measured courses) might not be available on the internet or not readable for us.
In this case we have to rely on the details given on the web site of the race. If in doubt we contact the organiser and eventually change the classification in one or the other direction, also later on.
All yearly rankings, record lists and personal bests are adjusted automatically after a change in classification.
Should you have further details for a race so please contact us and we will adjust the classification accordingly.

These cases can not be included into rankings:

Reason:
In sports statistics nobody should be credited a performance which he or she did not achieve. In ultramarathon results have to be displayed in full seconds. If fractions of seconds were measured then 01-99 hundredths always have to be rounded up to the next full second. If only full minutes are measured (e.g. 10:12 h) then this will be displayed as 10:12:00. But it is not clear whether the exact time was maybe 10:12:23 h and was rounded down to the next full minute. Hence performances with such inexactly measured times can not be included into official rankings.

The international rankings only include performances by athletes who are at least 16 years old. Performances by younger runners are explicitly filtered out because:

  1. According to the competition rules of most national athletics federations, an athlete has to be at least 18 years old for participation in a marathon or ultramarathon. Sometimes even at least 20 years old. In some countries participation is allowed from the age of 16, depending on the distance. We therefore set 16 as the minimum age for inclusion of the performance into rankings.
  2. We don't want to encourage a contest here as to who is the youngest finisher over a certain ultramarathon distance. This is often done by overzealous parents or coaches and is not in the best interests of children or adolescents. Hence these performances remain hidden for reasons of youth protection.

Промежуточные рейтинги, сплиты и DNF

The purpose of this results database is collection of final results of ultramarathon races. Intermediate results will only be captured if the full race has been finished, i.e. the distance or time the runner was inscribed to, and if the intermediate result is one of the standard distances of the IAU, e.g. the 50 k split of a 100 k race. The intermediate distance must fulfill the rules for inclusion into rankings.

All other intermediate timings and rankings are for us 'DNF' and will not be included into the database, no matter how long and difficult the race is. As usual in athletics we only count the final results achieved on the officially announced distance(s). E.g. for the Chiemgauer 100 it is possible to inscribe to 100mi or 100km, but not for 60km, 88km, 105km or 129km etc. We will not include these intermediate results even if the organiser of UTMB acknowledges them as qualifying races.

If a race has to be shortened or the course changed during the competition for more than half of the field due to reasons which are beyond the responsibility of the organiser (adverse weather, force majeure, etc.) then we will include the results of the affected athletes as one(!) additional event in the database.

Apart from these principal rules: Considering the increasing number and popularity of ultra races the inclusion of every intermediate ranking would outrun our working capacity.

Какие данные следует включить в список результатов?

As we have many athletes in our database we need detailed information to assign the performance to the correct person. The optimal result list should contain all informations listed below in separate columns. The order of columns does not matter.

These file formats are suitable:

PDF files cause often problems, images and flash files are completely inapplicable.

For submission of result lists you can download this Excel template, fill in and return to us by e-mail to results@statistik.d-u-v.org.

Почему мы собираем дату рождения?

  1. As we have a huge number of athletes in our database we need as detailed information as possible to assign the performance to the correct person. Often we have several persons with identical first and last names who need to be distinguished by an unchangeable attribute, ideally DOB. Other attributes like club, residence, nationality, age and even gender can change.
  2. In international rankings assignment to an age group is calculated by the exact age at the (first) day of competition. If we have a DOB we can calculate the age group automatically.
    This is in contrast to some national regulations which have a due date for assignment of age groups, e.g. in GER, FRA, ITA. See also calculation of age categories.
  3. See also заявле́ние о защи́те да́нных
  4. In order to legally secure the transfer of data, we recommend that race directors include the following clause in their conditions of participation:
    Your result including name, birthday, nationality, club affiliation may be shared with other organizations that have statistics, rankings or points systems such as ITRA, UTMB and DUV.

Дата и время

All dates (start dates of events, date of birth of athletes) use the European format in the order day, month, year (dd.mm.yyyy).
If the start or end time of an event is given then this is always the locale time at the location where the race starts. If no time is given or 00:00 h, then the start time is unknown. In a few cases the race starts actually at midnight, but unfortunately this can not be differentiated.

Timestamps when a result list was included into database use the locale time of the person who did the data acquisition. In most cases this is CET (GMT+1), but not always.

What is a elimination race/Backyard Ultra?

The backyard ultra (or sometimes called 'last man standing') is a form of ultramarathon race where competitors must consecutively run the distance of 6706 meters (4.167 miles) in less than one hour. When each lap is completed, the remaining time within the hour is typically used to recover for the next hour's race. Exactly one hour after a backyard ultra's first starting time, the competitors run an additional 6706 meters with a one-hour window for completion. These distance loops are repeated hourly. The race ends when the last runner or runners either concede or fail to finish the distance within the allotted time frame.

The distance the runners race each hour is set at 100/24 miles or 6705.6 meters, which is then rounded up to 6706 meters. The total distance run by a competitor who completes 24 laps is exactly 100 miles. Backyard ultra races are usually held on a loop measuring 6706 meters, though sometimes shorter loops or a 400-meter track are used. If no competitor manages one more lap than the others, then all athletes receive a DNF and there is no winner or the fastest to complete the previous lap is deemed the winner.

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
See also: http://backyardultra.com/

In DUV Statistics for Backyard ultras we include all performances >= 45.0 km no matter if these are labeled as DNF or not. (same as for hours races).
All backyard performances in km contained in our database are recalculated based on the number of laps (full hours) multiplied by the exact requested lap length of 6706 m, irrespective of some differently rounded results given in the original lists from the race director or time keeper.

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Расчёт производительности в зависимости от возраста

Основы

Статистические исследования возрастных групп и рекордов на дистанциях от 1500 м до 200 км показывают, что бегуны в возрасте от 23 до 35 лет находятся на пике своей физической формы. Более молодые бегуны, по биологическим причинам, ещё не достигли своего максимального потенциала. После 35 лет производительность снижается медленнее, впоследствии нарастая с увеличением возраста.

Возрастная группа от 23 до 35 лет называется основной категорией или абсолютной (M23 / F23 или OC).
Для предоставления более справедливой оценки было введено больше возрастных категорий (групп) с интервалом 5 или 10 лет, таким образом, спортсмены старшего возраста соревнуются только со спортсменами примерно своего возраста.

Для того, чтобы производительности были сопоставимы в пределах возрастной группы и пола, упомянутое выше исследование пытается соответствовать математической моделе кривой производительности и таким образом применяет возрастной фактор, который находится в таблицах по возрасту, полу и дисциплине. Ассоциация Ветеранов (Мастеров) Лёгкой Атлетики (WMA), организатор чемпионатов мира по легкой атлетике среди ветеранов (мастеров), использует эти официально признанные таблицы, чтобы сделать выступления спортсменов сопоставимыми.
(время 39:25 на дистанции 10000 м в 55 лет лучше, чем длина 4,25 м в прыжках в длину в 65 лет?).

Возрастной фактор

Возрастной фактор представляет собой число от 0 до 1. Для спортсмена в абсолютной категории он равен 1, 0,9439 для 44-летнего мужчины и 0,8556 для 55-летнего мужчины, при беге марафона и более длинных дистанций. Это означает, что спортсмен 55-и лет может достигнуть только 85% от производительности 30-летнего спортсмена. При умножении производительности 55-летнего (например, 3:10:00) на его возрастной фактор результатом является время 2:42:34 - это результат, которого он мог бы теоретически достичь будучи в возрасте от 23 до 35 лет (при условии идентичной тренировки).

Это даёт возможность сравнить производительности в рамках гонки среди бегунов разного возраста, а также оценить производительность одного спортсмена в различные годы. Редко бывает такое, что 55-летний может установить личный рекорд в абсолютном понимании, но вполне возможно, что текущая производительность, проецируемая на уровень абсолютной категории, может быть лучше чем в предыдущие годы.

Вышеупомянутое исследование утверждает, что снижение производительности с возрастом идентично, начиная с дистанции Марафон до дистанции 200 км, то есть для всех этих дистанций для определённого возраста применим один и тот же возрастной фактор. Для дистанции свыше 200 км данные не предоставлены.
Подробные детали о различиях у мужчин и женщин могут быть найдены в вышеупомянутом статьи Алана Джонса .

Процентный уровень производительности.

Производительность в зависимости от возраста может быть использована для сравнения производительностей в рамках дисциплины и пола. Расчёт процентного уровня производительности идёт на один шаг вперёд. Таким образом, производительности в рамках дисциплины и пола могут быть сравнимы.

Процентный уровень производительности представляет собой соотношение: Реальная производительность делится на максимально возможную производительность для возраста и пола.
Максимальная производительность (например, 100 км мужчины, основная категория ~ 5:56 ч), как правило, немного лучше, чем мировой рекорд возрастной группы (6:05:41 ч на 100 км мужчин основной категории) и оставляет некоторый запас для дальнейшего улучшения рекордов без необходимости немедленной корректировки таблиц.

Процентный уровень производительности
100% соответствует примерному уровню мирового рекорда
более 90% = Мировой Уровень
80% = Национальный Уровень
70% = Региональный Уровень <бр / > 60% = Местный Уровень
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