Bib #3686 · M4

Michael WITTERSTEIN

8:19:53

Finish time

2,493 / 12,733

Overall

Where you finished

Pool	Place	Of
Overall	2,493	12,733
Men	2,434	12,071
M4	258	1,439

What it took

Pool	Winner	Median
Overall	5:20:20+2:59:33	9:55:19−1:35:26
Men	5:20:20+2:59:33	9:53:09−1:33:16
M4	5:55:40+2:24:13	9:53:35−1:33:42

Winner and median are over classified finishers only. The gap is what you add to their time to get yours: + means you were that much slower, − that much faster.

The fun ranking

The 5th fastest Michael of 49. The quickest one did 6:09:20, the median Michael 11:00:09.

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Among classified finishers only, ties sharing a place. Not an official classification — no timekeeper has ever scored this.

Room to improve: your biggest relative loss vs. the M4 median was on Descente du Galibier — 4:03 slower.

Your AI ride analysis

In M4, against 12,733 other finishers, 2,493rd place came from a route that favored some of your segments more than others. Nothing else in the data matches how well you handled Col du Galibier, about 24 minutes faster than the M4 median there. You shed the most time relative to your category on Descente du Galibier — about 4 minutes back on the median. Zooming out to the field as a whole rather than just your category, you were about 5 minutes quicker against the overall median on Start → Pied de la Croix de Fer. Shore up Descente du Galibier and the rest of your splits suggest the overall result would follow naturally.

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Rider move along the real course profile, positions interpolated between the timing mats from their split times.

Michael WITTERSTEIN moving along the real course at their own recorded splits. Between two timing mats the dot is interpolated, so it glides where the rider may well have been suffering.

Race position along the course

Climbs & segments

Segment	Time	Rank	Top %	vs median
Start → Pied de la Croix de FerFlat / valley	23:35	1,302	9%	−5:01
Col de la Croix de FerClimb	1:37:19	2,293	16%	−18:14
Descente + vallée de la MaurienneFlat / valley	1:13:41	3,256	23%	−14:14
Col du TélégrapheClimb	56:03	2,239	16%	−12:44
Télégraphe → Pied du Galibier (Valloire)Flat / valley	9:17	725	5%	−4:09
Col du GalibierClimb	1:29:58	1,738	14%	−25:27
Descente du GalibierDescent	1:00:53	7,720	62%	+3:46
Col de SarenneClimb	1:09:05	1,874	15%	−15:35
Descente Sarenne → Alpe d’HuezDescent	20:02	4,191	33%	−1:39
Classement grimpeur (Croix de Fer + Télégraphe + Galibier)Combined	4:03:20	1,793	14%	−55:30
Classement descendeur (2 descentes cumulées)Combined	1:20:55	6,592	53%	+1:23

“Top %” = segment rank as a share of riders timed on that segment. “vs median” = time ahead of (green) or behind (red) the median rider.

How you compare, climb by climb

Segment	You	Stage winner	M4 leader	GC avg / median	M4 avg / median
Start → Pied de la Croix de Fer	23:35	Hugo VALADIER 20:51	Sebastian DRUSZKIEWICZ 20:54	28:36 / 28:36	28:32 / 28:46
Col de la Croix de Fer	1:37:19	Simon COMBES 1:05:13	Sebastian DRUSZKIEWICZ 1:07:54	1:55:29 / 1:55:33	1:55:24 / 1:54:50
Descente + vallée de la Maurienne	1:13:41	Antoine BERGER 52:00	Alexandre BANEGAS 56:28	1:28:54 / 1:27:55	1:28:40 / 1:26:52
Col du Télégraphe	56:03	Luca CAVALLO 33:04	Alexandre BANEGAS 38:57	1:10:11 / 1:08:47	1:09:43 / 1:08:09
Télégraphe → Pied du Galibier (Valloire)	9:17	Robin BOURDIER 7:46	Alexandre BANEGAS 7:59	15:48 / 13:26	15:41 / 13:28
Col du Galibier	1:29:58	Luca CAVALLO 50:25	Jonathan LEMAITRE 1:00:24	1:56:29 / 1:55:25	1:56:02 / 1:53:56
Descente du Galibier	1:00:53	Thibaut CLÉMENT 34:38	Alexandre BANEGAS 37:18	58:21 / 57:07	58:24 / 56:50
Col de Sarenne	1:09:05	Luca CAVALLO 39:52	Naoto SAITA 50:07	1:26:19 / 1:24:40	1:26:23 / 1:24:05
Descente Sarenne → Alpe d’Huez	20:02	Gustave BRUYER 3:39	Baptiste COUSTET 14:19	22:12 / 21:41	22:08 / 21:39
Classement grimpeur (Croix de Fer + Télégraphe + Galibier)	4:03:20	Luca CAVALLO 2:28:49	Alexandre BANEGAS 2:50:13	4:57:35 / 4:58:50	4:56:45 / 4:56:26
Classement descendeur (2 descentes cumulées)	1:20:55	Thibaut CLÉMENT 47:15	Baptiste COUSTET 52:33	1:20:41 / 1:19:32	1:20:34 / 1:18:51

“Stage winner” = fastest rider on that segment, field-wide. “GC” = the whole classified field. Rows with no result for this rider (missed timing mat) are omitted here — see the table above for why.

Checkpoint splits

Checkpoint	Km	Time	Rank	vs median
START	0	0:00	—
Pied de Col de la Croix de Fer	14.8	23:35	1,286	−5:01
Col de la Croix de Fer	38.5	2:00:54	2,066	−23:21
Pied de Col du Télégraphe	80.1	3:14:35	2,428	−38:13
Col du Télégraphe	92	4:10:38	2,335	−51:20
Pied de Col du Galibier	97.3	4:19:55	2,003	−58:53
Tunnel du Galibier	114.6	5:41:56	2,023	−1:23:10
Activation Canyon	115	5:43:13	1,935	−1:19:55
Col du Galibier	115.6	5:49:53	2,044	−1:18:57
Pied de Col de Sarenne	140.2	6:50:46	2,595	−1:17:18
Col de Sarenne	161	7:59:51	2,290	−1:35:16
FINISH	170	8:19:53	2,493	−1:35:27

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