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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 Icelanders, or do we know none took part?
78%complete
Checked
4730
Not checked yet
1318

6048 completed races in the database

Coverage per year

100% coverage 90–99% Under 90% Partial results Missing results
Races in Iceland
Share of completed races in Iceland with results in the database
86%complete
With results
51
Missing results
8

59 completed races in Iceland in the database

Coverage per year

100% coverage 90–99% Under 90% Partial results Missing results
Races abroad
Races outside Iceland in the TriSonen calendar: do we know whether Icelanders took part?
74%known
With Icelanders
492
Confirmed without Icelanders
3263
Unknown
1310

5065 completed races abroad in the database

Not counted: 924 races in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland whose complete result lists contain no Icelanders.

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 Icelanders Partial results Confirmed without Icelanders 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.