The Stoppomat is a time measure system for athletes.
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The Stoppomat was devised in Germany in 2005. The first installation was put in service in the spring of 2006. Similar devices have been manufactured in Switzerland and Austria. The Swiss Trophy, since 2003, uses three mobile plants at nine different locations. Units have been used at Grossglockner and on Albulapass for years.
The first plant in Germany is on the Höchsten, which is, at 833 meters of altitude, the highest point in the District of Lake Constance. The start area is at 499 meters above sea level. sl in the Schönemühle at Deggenhausertal Urnau | Urnau, the target column to 830 meters at Illmensee | Glashütten.
The start house and the mountain station were planned in the spring of 2006 by the cycling club RSV Seerose e.V. from Friedrichshafen, built and put into operation. On the 8.2-kilometer-long stretch, 360 meters of elevation must be overcome to the summit. The course record is held by the cyclist Jörg Ludewig of Team Wiesenhof-Felt with 16:09 minutes. This represents an average speed of 30.46 kilometers per hour.
The main event at the plant is the annualLightweight Uphill. With 560 participants in 2006 and 620 participants in 2007, the competition is currently Germany's biggest cycling time trial. In the years 2006, 2007 and 2008, cyclists used the facility approximately 11,800 times to document their training times or entwine permit. Currently cyclists, runners, walkers, skaters and bicyclists are managed in different categories. Each year 22,000 athletes use the Stoppomat system. About 55% use the registration and each one of them is coming 2.5 times each year.
The device enables the documentation of run results for cyclists.
Inventor and developer of stoppOmat is Roland Hecht, who lives at the lakeside of lac of constance. Developer of the datasystem, homepage and valuesystem is Dr.Th.Bischof also living at the lakeside of lac of constance. Both are holding all right of label and development.
Since winter of 2007/2008 several new plants were built, which are operated by volunteer work of sports clubs and by local sponsors. Since the introduction of a nationwide seriesTOUR Stoppomat-Challenge in 2008, 15,000 athletes participated.
Plants were put into operation at the following locations:
To obtain the average of a series of ratings, an investment analysis software generates and sets this ratio to 100. The personal journey is set in relation to plant ratios and then added up in the series standings. Thus, the athlete can increase overall ratings by the use of multiple route.