World Triathlon is pleased to
announce that the RaceRanger drafting detection system will be used at the
Ibiza 2023 Multisport World Championships in order to assist Technical
Officials with draft marshalling. After a successful test in various races
throughout this season, the system will be used by all elite athletes competing
in the Long Distance World Championships on May 7, 2023.
In collaboration with World
Triathlon’s Sport Department, RaceRanger have continued to test under a trial
period, where the system was thoroughly integrated in four non-drafting events
in New Zealand and Australia across various distances. Feedback and evaluations
from both athletes and technical officials was provided, and small adjustments
were made to the system’s functionality as a result.
RaceRanger CEO & Co-Founder James
Elvery said: “We learned a lot from our trial events. Not only did we encounter
some system bugs that needed to be corrected, but more importantly, we got
direct feedback from the athletes and technical officials about their
experience of the system in race conditions. The main things we have adjusted
have been the buffer zones. We changed what the different coloured lights refer
to, and also the distance thresholds for them to change colour.”
“We now have a red light for riding
within the 12m draft zone, a blue light for a 2m last warning zone from 12m to
14m, and finally an orange light for a 3m ‘first contact’ zone from 14-17m.”
“The product that is available now,
and that will be used in Ibiza, is finally ready to be applied to top level
competition as an officiating aid. We’d like to thank World Triathlon for the
opportunity to be part of the Long Distance World Championships, and for all
their support and input from the beginning of our journey to this point”, he
explained.
The process of including additions to
the World Triathlon competition rules, to account for RaceRanger or similar
technologies in the future, will be part of World Triathlons standard technical
process for reviewing rules. This rigorous process can take several months of
work, before submission to the World Triathlon Executive Board for
ratification.
“We see a huge potential for the RaceRanger
system to improve fairness in non-drafting triathlons around the world, by
removing the subjective nature of drafting penalty decisions. This includes a
number of paratri categories that could feature the RaceRanger system, which we
will test at the 2023 World Triathlon Para Championships that will take place
in Pontevedra in September”, explained Gergely Markus, World Triathlon Sport
Director.
ABOUT WORLD TRIATHLON
World Triathlon is the international
governing body for the Olympic and Paralympic sport of triathlon and all
related multisport disciplines around the world, including duathlon, aquathlon,
cross triathlon and winter triathlon. Triathlon made its Olympic debut in
Sydney 2000, with a third medal event, the Mixed Team Relay, added to the programme
at Tokyo 2020, while para triathlon was first added to the Paralympic programme
at Rio 2016. World Triathlon is proudly committed to the development of the
sport worldwide, with inclusion, equality, sustainability and transparency at
our core as we seek to help triathletes at all levels of the sport to be
extraordinary.
www.triathlon.org
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