Nicolas Sitter
The L'Étape du Tour archive

Generations

Who races it, by age

99,422 classified finishes across 10 editions, placed in the age band the organiser filed each athlete under. A further 8,373 carry no usable age class.

The timing provider’s own M1–M10 and W1–W10 classes, which state no ages anywhere — the ranges here are derived from riders who also raced the Alpe.

The whole archive, by band

Classified finishes, all editions. Hover a bar for its count.

05,00010,00015,00020,000<2020–2930–3435–3940–4445–4950–5455–5960+
How the age structure moved, 2014 to 2026

Each band’s share of the classified field that year, young at the bottom. Hover a year for its make-up.

Under 2020–2930–3435–3940–4445–4950–5455–5960 and over
0%25%50%75%100%2014201520162017201920222023202420252026

The bands sum to the whole classified field each year, so this is composition — it says nothing about whether the race grew.

Is the mapping right?

The organiser’s class codes do not state their ages, so they are mapped — and the mapping is checked against this archive rather than taken on trust. If it were off by one class, anyone racing either side of a vocabulary change would appear to jump years in a single season.

Across 30,229 pairs of consecutive editions by the same person, the band moves backwards 623 times and skips more than one bucket 400 times — 96.6% consistent. The residue is the size name collisions predict.

Median finish by band

BandL'Étape du Tour
Under 206:01:35 · 22
20–298:45:31 · 15,941
30–349:25:30 · 11,596
35–398:27:13 · 12,900
40–449:07:38 · 13,364
45–499:10:50 · 14,174
50–548:55:06 · 13,541
55–598:59:03 · 9,458
60 and over9:13:43 · 8,426

Each cell is the median of that band’s per-edition medians, with the classified finishes behind it.

About this project and its data. The results are Sport Innovation / TimeTo’s — the official timekeeper of the event. They were fetched once after the event and republished here with segment times, recomputed leaderboards and a page per athlete that the official results do not offer. The timing is their work; the analysis is mine, and any mistake in it is mine too. Athletes who asked to be anonymous in the official results stay anonymous here.

Computed from public_dashboard.race_* over all 10 editions · built 2026-09-08