Net time per participant
The clock starts at the line. Wave starts become fair and nobody loses time stuck in the pen.
Chip timing
Chip timing, bibs included
Timekeepers time your race and leave. We time it, we sell your bibs and we show the leaderboard live, with one single contact.
Where we travel The published price covers France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany, where booking happens online. For an event anywhere else, write to us, we price the transport and we come.
One sensor on the ground, one transponder per participant, and every crossing is recorded to the second. Net time starts when the runner crosses the line, not at the gun, which makes waves and staggered starts perfectly fair. Results are published the moment people finish, on the big screen and on everyone phone.
What you get
Split points
A second sensor controls laps and checkpoints. Useful to validate a course and spot a drop out.
Live leaderboard
Results climb by themselves onto the big screen, the village TV and the athletes phones.
Bibs sold in the same place
Registrations run through Throwdown, so the start list and the transponders are already paired on race day.
No software to install
Everything runs in the browser and in the app. You arrive with the kit, you leave with published results.
How it works
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You book
At least two weeks before the event, the time it takes to hold the kit for your dates.
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The kit arrives
Shipped on Friday, with you before the weekend, transponders and sensor ready to lay down.
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Race day
The sensor goes down in minutes. You hand out transponders at check in and the leaderboard fills itself.
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You send it back
Everything ships back on Monday. Results stay online forever, findable by your race name.
Other timed disciplines
- How much does chip timing cost One price for the weekend, not a subscription. You know what you pay before you book.
- Time a trail without staying up all night A mass start, several distances, an aid station to control. The sensor does the work, you run the race.
- The backyard, the format that breaks every stopwatch One loop an hour, for days on end. The one format where counting laps by hand is impossible.
- Obstacle racing, in waves and without bottlenecks Starts every few minutes, penalties to fold in, multiple categories. The timing keeps up.
- Ten k, half marathon, corporate run The most classic format, with the same demands as the rest. Net time, instant results, a page that stays online.
- Canicross, bikejoring, run and bike Starts one by one every thirty seconds, harness categories to separate. A textbook case for net time.
- What happens between the line and the leaderboard The principle comes down to three parts, a transponder, an antenna and software. Here is how they work together.
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Yes. Timing comes with our ticketing, never on its own, because that is what pairs the start list with the transponders without any re entry. The weekend pack starts at 600 €, plus 3 € per transponder beyond the forty included.
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One per participant on the course at the same time, not one per entry. Transponders are reused between waves. Forty are included, extra ones cost 3 € each.
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Each one carries a 60 € replacement value, billed only if it does not come back. In practice a deposit at check in is enough.
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Any event where somebody crosses a line. Trail, ultra, backyard, obstacle racing, road, canicross, run and bike, and of course hybrid races and in box simulations.
Tell us about your event
Give us the date, the venue and the expected field, and we come back with a firm price.
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