UTMB - pointless statistics and analysis

My UTMB ended just after Arnuvaz. I was interested to see the DNF stats to see how I compared. I was interested to see how the DNF rates compared by a few different characteristics too. I will leave the reader to leap to conclusions. I used those who made it Les Houches as my start list to exclude any DNSs.

Is name a factor in finishing? Absolutely. The most common finishing name was David. Unfortunately I pulled down the finish rate somewhat. Guillaume is by far the best name to have though with all but one of the 19 starters finishing. The only Guillaume I know is Mr Arthus who is quite a handy runner. Patrick isn't such a good name with only 38% finishing.

Name	Start count	Finish rate
David	39	61.5%
Nicolas	28	57.1%
Julien	24	75.0%
Laurent	23	56.5%
Olivier	22	77.3%
Pierre	22	72.7%
Philippe	21	57.1%
Christophe	21	52.4%
Guillaume	19	94.7%
Stephane	17	47.1%
Sebastien	17	70.6%
Michael	16	50.0%
Frederic	16	81.3%
Thomas	15	73.3%
Daniel	15	53.3%
Franck	14	71.4%
Patrick	13	38.5%
Pascal	13	69.2%
Thierry	12	66.7%
Vincent	12	66.7%
Sébastien	12	58.3%
Michel	12	66.7%
Eric	12	66.7%
Matthieu	11	63.6%
Mathieu	11	72.7%
Anthony	11	81.8%
Antoine	11	81.8%
Alexandre	11	63.6%
Andrew	11	54.5%
Benoit	11	72.7%
Sylvain	10	60.0%
Martin	10	50.0%
Jerome	10	70.0%
Marco	10	50.0%
Christian	10	40.0%

Unsurprisingly, France has by far the highest number of starters. The finishing rate is quite high at 63%. The non-French finishing rate is 57% and the overall is 59%.  Sweden has the highest finishing rate of countries above 20 starters. Hong Kong the lowest.

Country	Starters	Finish rate
FR	894	62.9%
ES	204	55.4%
IT	180	52.8%
JP	168	52.4%
GB	142	53.5%
CN	135	51.9%
US	93	63.4%
PL	89	62.9%
HK	80	45.0%
PT	52	69.2%
CH	52	59.6%
DE	47	63.8%
BE	45	68.9%
CA	37	62.2%
AR	26	53.8%
SE	25	80.0%
AU	25	64.0%
RO	20	35.0%

The splits by category were interesting. Most likely to finish were Men (H) under 40. Women were 6% less likely to finish than men. Women made up less than 10% of starters but 12.3% of the under 40 category. 

Category	Starters	Finish rate
SE F	89	61.8%
SE H	724	64.9%
V1 F	109	55.0%
V1 H	1035	62.0%
V2 F	45	33.3%
V2 H	465	50.5%
V3 F	5	80.0%
V3 H	70	34.3%
V4 H	4	0.0%
F all	248	54.0%
H all	2294	59.8%

Grand Total

2546

59.1%

DNF by section was interesting. Arnouvaz to La Fouly took out the most per km including me. It is the start of the second evening for the tail of the race and also coincided with a massive thunderstorm this year. I made it further than most DNFs with 75% not making it to La Fouly for the cut off.

Aid station	Still in	DNFs	Distance	DNF per km
Les Houches	2540	0	8	N/A
St Gervais	2534	6	21	0.46
Contamines	2497	43	31	3.70
La Blame	2428	112	39	8.63
Les Chapieux	2383	157	50	4.09
Lac Combal	2287	253	65	6.40
Courmayer	2203	337	78	6.46
Courmayer exit	2098	442	78	N/A
Arnouvaz	1939	601	95	9.35
La Fouly	1803	737	109	9.71
Champex	1684	856	123	8.50
Trient	1607	933	140	4.53
Finish	1555	985	170	1.73