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Semi de Paris — every edition

11 editions, 395,723 classified finishers, 20152026. Every figure here is read from the results the timekeeper published.

Editions
11
2015–2026
Finishers
395,723
classified, all editions
Women
37.3%
147,614 of 395,723
Biggest field
49,281
2026
The size of the field

Classified finishers per edition. The axis starts at zero, so the height of a point is the size of the field.

020,00040,00060,000201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Classified finishers per edition, 2015 to 2026

The size of the field. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each point.

2016 sits off the line: the timekeeper does not publish the whole field for it.

Show the numbers
YearFinishers
201534,905
20163,304
201738,211
201836,007
201933,764
2020
202118,426
202240,980
202345,400
202447,901
202547,544
202649,281
The winning time

Fastest finisher, over the same 21.097 km every year — so unlike a mountain race, these times are directly comparable.

55:001:00:001:05:001:10:00201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Winning time per edition, 2015 to 2026

The winning time. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each point.

The scale starts at 55:00, not zero — these are finishing times, and a clock plotted from zero is a flat line. Read the gaps between points, not their height above the axis.

Fastest of the archive: Roncer KIPKORIR in 2023, 59:38 (2:50/km).

Show the numbers
YearWinner
20151:00:16
20161:09:06
20171:00:38
20181:01:25
20191:04:20
2020
202159:42
20221:00:52
202359:38
20241:00:45
20251:00:16
20261:00:11
The median finisher

Half the field finished faster than this, half slower.

gun time1:45:002:00:002:15:002:30:002:45:003:00:00201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Median finishing time per edition, 2015 to 2026

The median finisher. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each point.

The scale starts at 1:45:00, not zero — these are finishing times, and a clock plotted from zero is a flat line. Read the gaps between points, not their height above the axis.

Show the numbers
YearMedian
20152:44:20
20161:58:34
20172:42:02
20182:47:16
20191:59:05
2020
20211:59:42
20221:55:02
20231:55:26
20241:56:34
20251:59:00
20261:57:19
Women in the field

Share of classified finishers.

0%20%40%60%201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Women as a share of classified finishers per edition, 2015 to 2026

Women in the field. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each point.

Show the numbers
YearWomen
201532.6%
201625.8%
201733.7%
201834.0%
201934.8%
2020
202130.1%
202234.9%
202337.1%
202440.5%
202543.2%
202644.5%
One edition is only partly published. The timekeeper publishes 3,304 finishers for 2016 where the race actually had about 37,100, over three timing mats where 2015 and 2017 have five. It is not a random tenth of the field either: the entire elite race is missing. Cyprien Kotut won this edition in 1:01:04, and neither he nor Amos Kipruto, Azmeraw Mengistu, Dibabe Kuma nor Christelle Daunay appears anywhere in the feed — so its own rank 1 is a club runner at 1:09:06 who was nowhere near the front of the race. Its figures are shown because they are what exists, but it is drawn as a hollow point and left out of the lines: a smaller number here is missing results, not a smaller race. The name marked * is the fastest runner in the published subset and not the winner of the race.

Where the timing breaks down

Not every edition supports every page. These are the ones whose data would not carry the analysis the others get, and what went wrong in each — stated here rather than left for a reader to infer from a missing table.

2018

The provider's own results contradict themselves in 39 places — pairs where the runner placed ahead has the slower gun time, worst case 52 seconds. Published as they stand: the ordering here is the official one, inconsistencies included.

2022

The km-15 and km-20 mats missed about 7,000 runners — 17% of the field — so every ranking at those two points is over a smaller field than the rest of the race. Nobody left and came back; they simply were not read.

The clock changed

The editions from 2015 to 2018 are ranked on gun time — measured from the starter’s gun, however long a runner waited to reach the line. From 2019 the official classification switches to chip time.

It is not a detail. In a field this size the later pens cross the start line more than an hour after the gun, so the two clocks disagree by more than the gap between the median finisher and the top hundred. Each edition here is ranked the way its own results were published, established by testing which time field reproduces the provider’s own ordering — not by trusting the flag in the feed, which is honest on some editions and wrong on others.

Missing years

2020Cancelled — the pandemic. The 2021 edition ran in September and the 2022 one in June, before the race returned to its March slot.

Every edition

YearFinishersWomenWinnerWinning timeMedianClock
201534,90532.6%Vincent YATOR1:00:162:44:20gun
20163,30425.8%Romain PRUDON *1:09:06 *1:58:34gun
201738,21133.7%Morris GACHAGA1:00:382:42:02gun
201836,00734.0%Evans CHERUIYOT1:01:252:47:16gun
201933,76434.8%Hizkel TEWELDE1:04:201:59:05chip
202118,42630.1%Moses KIBET59:421:59:42chip
202240,98034.9%Boniface KIBIWOTT1:00:521:55:02chip
202345,40037.1%Roncer KIPKORIR59:381:55:26chip
202447,90140.5%Bernard KOECH1:00:451:56:34chip
202547,54443.2%Kennedy KIMUTAI1:00:161:59:00chip
202649,28144.5%Kennedy KIMUTAI1:00:111:57:19chip

What this archive will not tell you

How many people abandoned. Every edition here lists classified finishers only — there are no DNF rows to count, so an abandon rate computed from these numbers would come out as zero for every year.

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. Course details come from Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organiser. Each edition is ranked as its own official results were — gun time on the older years, chip time from 2019 — established per edition against the published ordering. Athletes who asked to be anonymous in the official results stay anonymous here.

395,723 finishers across 11 editions · built 2026-09-07