Race Analysis: Châtel EDR World Cup 2023 by edspratt

Colton Peterson with a career best on 15th

After seven months of racing the final round of the 2023 enduro World Cup series saw riders take on seven incredible stages with an all-out battle for the overall titles. The racing provided plenty of interesting results and some standout performances so let's get into the stats.

Course Details

Falco Trail: 1.4km / 325m descent - Stage 1

Barboss: 2.8km / 430m descent - Stage 2

Foret Du Saix: 1.8km / 410m descent - Stage 3

Hattock/Da Trail: 2km / 295m descent - Stage 4

Coupe De France: 2km / 317m descent - Stage 5

Haute Tension: 1.9km / 380m descent - Stage 6

Komatrautrail: 1.5km / 250m descent - Stage 7

Race Results

Elite Women

1st. Morgane Charre: 27:54.410
2nd. Isabeau Courdurier: 28:01.280
3rd. Hattie Harnden: 28:27.760
4th. Ella Conolly: 28:30.420
5th. Mélanie Pugin: 28:42.740

Elite Men

1st. Jesse Melamed: 23:57.730
2nd. Alex Rudeau: 24:09.210
3rd. Richie Rude: 24:22.510
4th. Dan Booker: 24:22.590
4th. Slawomir Lukasik: 24:22.590

Full results, here.

Top 20 Finish Spread

Stage by Stage Results

A crash to start the day would keep Martin Maes out of contention

Overall Stage Positions

Stage 1:

Elite Women:

1st. Isabeau Courdurier: 3:32.970
2nd. Morgane Charre: 3:33.910
3rd. Barbora Vojta: 3:38.100
4th. Gloria Scarsi: 3:38.580
5th. Ella Conolly: 3:40.020

Elite Men:

1st. Jesse Melamed: 2:59.780
2nd. Dan Booker: 3:02.790
3rd. Jack Menzies: 3:03.170
4th. Alex Rudeau: 3:03.250
5th. Adrien Dailly: 3:04.820

Stage 2:

Elite Women:

1st. Morgane Charre: 9:05.180
2nd. Isabeau Courdurier: 9:05.370
3rd. Gloria Scarsi: 9:07.800
4th. Hattie Harnden: 9:10.850
5th. Ella Conolly: 9:14.870

Elite Men:

1st. Jesse Melamed: 7:36.810
2nd. Alex Rudeau: 7:40.390
3rd. Slawomir Lukasik: 7:45.420
4th. Dan Booker: 7:46.340
5th. Charlie Murray: 4:42.030

Stage 3:

Elite Women:

1st. Isabeau Courdurier: 13:41.970
2nd. Morgane Charre: 13:42.550
3rd. Hattie Harnden: 13:50.180
4th. Ella Conolly: 14:00.720
5th. Mélanie Pugin: 14:04.150

Elite Men:

1st. Jesse Melamed: 11:31.280
2nd. Alex Rudeau: 11:31.290
3rd. Charlie Murray: 11:39.360
4th. Slawomir Lukasik: 11:43.220
5th. Dan Booker: 11:46.160

Stage 4:

Elite Women:

1st. Morgane Charre: 17:13.740
2nd. Isabeau Courdurier: 17:15.970
3rd. Hattie Harnden: 17:26.690
4th. Ella Conolly: 17:36.350
5th. Mélanie Pugin: 17:39.960

Elite Men:

1st. Jesse Melamed: 14:39.320
2nd. Alex Rudeau: 14:43.300
3rd. Charlie Murray: 14:53.230
4th. Richie Rude: 14:55.400
5th. Dan Booker: 14:56.140

Stage 5:

Elite Women:

1st. Morgane Charre: 21:30.470
2nd. Isabeau Courdurier: 21:32.700
3rd. Hattie Harnden: 21:49.130
4th. Ella Conolly: 21:56.690
5th. Mélanie Pugin: 22:02.110

Elite Men:

1st. Jesse Melamed: 18:21.630
2nd. Alex Rudeau: 18:30.730
3rd. Richie Rude: 18:40.370
4th. Dan Booker: 18:43.770
5th. Slawomir Lukasik: 18:44.450

Stage 6:

Elite Women:

1st. Morgane Charre: 25:03.500
2nd. Isabeau Courdurier: 25:05.550
3rd. Hattie Harnden: 25:25.820
4th. Ella Conolly: 25:32.230
5th. Mélanie Pugin: 25:43.740

Elite Men:

1st. Jesse Melamed: 21:29.270
2nd. Alex Rudeau: 21:37.900
3rd. Richie Rude: 21:49.400
4th. Dan Booker: 21:49.420
5th. Charlie Murray: 21:52.630

Stage 7:

Elite Women:

1st. Morgane Charre: 27:54.410
2nd. Isabeau Courdurier: 28:01.280
3rd. Hattie Harnden: 28:27.760
4th. Ella Conolly: 28:30.420
5th. Mélanie Pugin: 28:42.740

Elite Men:

1st. Jesse Melamed: 23:57.730
2nd. Alex Rudeau: 24:09.210
3rd. Richie Rude: 24:22.510
4th. Dan Booker: 24:22.590
4th. Slawomir Lukasik: 24:22.590

Stage Rankings

Stage 1:

Elite Women:

1st. Isabeau Courdurier: 3:32.970
2nd. Morgane Charre: 3:33.910
3rd. Barbora Vojta: 3:38.100
4th. Gloria Scarsi: 3:38.580
5th. Ella Conolly: 3:40.020

Elite Men:

1st. Jesse Melamed: 2:59.780
2nd. Dan Booker: 3:02.790
3rd. Jack Menzies: 3:03.170
4th. Alex Rudeau: 3:03.250
5th. Adrien Dailly: 3:04.820

Stage 2:

Elite Women:

1st. Hattie Harnden: 5:28.350
2nd. Gloria Scarsi: 5:29.220
3rd. Morgane Charre: 5:31.270
4th. Isabeau Courdurier: 5:32.400
5th. Mélanie Pugin: 5:33.470

Elite Men:

1st. Jesse Melamed: 4:37.030
2nd. Alex Rudeau: 4:37.140
3rd. Slawomir Lukasik: 4:37.470
4th. Charlie Murray: 4:42.030
5th. Youn Deniaud: 4:42.630

Stage 3:

Elite Women:

1st. Isabeau Courdurier: 4:36.600
2nd. Morgane Charre: 4:37.370
3rd. Hattie Harnden: 4:39.330
4th. Mélanie Pugin: 4:43.350
5th. Ella Conolly: 4:45.850

Elite Men:

1st. Alex Rudeau: 3:50.900
2nd. Charlie Murray: 3:52.140
3rd. Jesse Melamed: 3:54.470
4th. Richie Rude: 3:55.400
5th. Slawomir Lukasik: 3:57.800

Stage 4:

Elite Women:

1st. Morgane Charre: 3:31.190
2nd. Isabeau Courdurier: 3:34.000
3rd. Ella Conolly: 3:35.630
4th. Mélanie Pugin: 3:35.810
5th. Hattie Harnden: 3:36.510

Elite Men:

1st. Jack Moir: 3:07.520
2nd. Jesse Melamed: 3:08.040
3rd. Richie Rude: 3:08.530
4th. Dylan Levesque: 3:08.600
5th. Martin Maes: 3:09.500

Stage 5:

Elite Women:

1st. Morgane Charre: 4:16.730
1st. Isabeau Courdurier: 4:16.730
3rd. Ella Conolly: 4:20.340
4th. Mélanie Pugin: 4:22.150
5th. Hattie Harnden: 4:22.440

Elite Men:

1st. Jesse Melamed: 3:42.310
2nd. Richie Rude: 3:44.970
3rd. Kasper Woolley: 3:46.700
4th. Slawomir Lukasik: 3:46.880
5th. Jack Moir: 3:47.110

Stage 6:

Elite Women:

1st. Isabeau Courdurier: 3:32.850
1st. Morgane Charre: 3:33.030
3rd. Ella Conolly: 3:35.540
4th. Hattie Harnden: 3:36.690
5th. Noga Korem: 3:38.930

Elite Men:

1st. Dan Booker: 3:05.650
2nd. Alex Rudeau: 3:07.170
3rd. Jack Moir: 3:07.450
4th. Jesse Melamed: 3:07.640
5th. Charlie Murray: 3:07.670

Stage 7:

Elite Women:

1st. Morgane Charre: 2:50.910
1st. Isabeau Courdurier: 2:55.730
3rd. Ella Conolly: 2:58.190
4th. Mélanie Pugin: 2:59.000
5th. Noga Korem: 3:00.620

Elite Men:

1st. Jesse Melamed: 2:28.460
2nd. Slawomir Lukasik: 2:29.790
3rd. Jack Moir: 2:30.480
4th. Kasper Woolley: 2:30.640
5th. Dylan Levesque: 2:30.700

Story of the Race

Elite Women

Elite Men

Perfect Results

Women:

Perfect Race: 27:49.6 (4.81 seconds faster than the winning time.)

// Isabeau Courdurier: 3:32.970 // Hattie Harnden: 5:28.350 // Isabeau Courdurier: 4:36.600 // Morgane Charre: 3:31.190 // Morgane Charre & Isabeau Courdurier: 4:16.730 // Isabeau Courdurier: 3:32.850 // Morgane Charre: 2:50.910 //

Men:

Perfect Race: 23:51.650 (6.08 seconds faster than the winning time.)

// Jesse Melamed 2:59.78 // Jesse Melamed: 4:37.030 // Alex Rudeau: 3:50.900 // Jack Moir: 3:07.520 // Jesse Melamed: 3:42.310 // Dan Booker: 3:05.650 // Jesse Melamed: 2:28.460 //

Stats Breakdown

The top 10 riders were plotted before including results at positions 20, 30 and 36

The top 10 riders were plotted before including results at positions 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110 and 113

Overall Standings

Full results, here.

Author Info:

edspratt

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7 Comments

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rbarbier12 (Sep 18, 2023 at 10:09)

These data are great and I love the posts! Just a thought, but to better visualize the top rider results, it may be clearer to normalize all data to a global or average time or split. Would better allow one to see when the lead rider makes a mistake relative to the rest.

Royk50 (Sep 18, 2023 at 12:46)

Agreed normalize to the perfect run would be great

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salespunk (Sep 18, 2023 at 10:53)

How about the fact that Booker, Rude and Lukasic all finished on the same 1/10th of a second and Rude/Booker were in a dead tie all the way to 1/1000th of a second. Doesn't get much tighter than that!

stunnanumma1 (Sep 18, 2023 at 12:51)

yet coverage outside of PB is terrible. a shame. having grown up playing traditional sports, i can't explain how fascinating bike racing is, and how amazing it is - how close etc...how hard. the fact an organization cannot figure out how to cover it is unacceptable in 2023...Come on redbull.

Snfoilhat (Sep 18, 2023 at 14:39)

@stunnanumma1: i think you’ve got an insight. Imagine another person or your old self with their traditional sports background and explain enduro to them during an event. Ok it’s a race, who is ahead right now? Who’s behind them? What’s the difference? Is that a lot? A little? Are they going to catch up? Ok who’s ahead now, and why?What are they doing differently? What should i be paying attention to? EWS never figured out how to make this a story a person can engage with until after the race is over. DH uses split times and play-by-play and it’s still pretty rough viewing sometimes. Enduro has challenging problems to solve to be a sport fans consume live. And if two days is going to be distilled into a 10 minute edit retrospectively based on who won, it raises questions about the business case for all those riders and all that sponsor signage and the huge percentage of the whole multiday thing that doesn’t make it into the recap people later see.

E-ToneAZ (Sep 18, 2023 at 18:05)

How does the 'Perfect Race' measurement work? How do they calculate the 'perfect race'?

grahamvdr (Sep 19, 2023 at 5:45)

The winning time for each stage is taken.