Live leaderboard vs official results
During the event, the leaderboard is worked out live from athletes' GPS tracking, the real-time picture of who's where. It's an estimate: it moves as pings arrive, and it settles as athletes' data finishes syncing.
Official results are a separate, published record, kept on the event's results page. They start provisional and you mark them official by publishing. Publishing computes final placings from whatever timing data has been recorded for the event and locks that in as a settled classification, distinct from the live, in-progress leaderboard.
Important: publishing does not pull athletes' GPS times off the live leaderboard for you. If your event has no timing data recorded yet (see Chip timing below), publishing has nothing to mark official. For most organisers today, results come from bringing in chip-timing data; this is worth planning for before race day if an official, publishable result matters to you.
Sportives publish differently: personal times, no rankings
How results are published depends on the event format:
- Races and time trials publish a ranked classification: an overall position and a category position for each finisher, fastest first.
- Sportives and gran fondos publish neutrally: personal times only, with no positions or rankings anywhere, not on the page, not in the export. Athletes find their name and read their own time. A viewer can filter by their own gender or age category and, once a filter is on, sort those athletes by time for context, but Aster never awards a place.
This is structural, not a setting. A sportive stays a timed ride, never a race.
A meet-up has no results page at all: it's untimed, with no standings, no leaderboard and nothing to publish. Its post-event story is the replay, not a results list.
Publishing results
You publish from the event's manage screen, once the event has finished. This stops an in-progress event's placings being marked official mid-race. Publishing:
- Works out final placings (for ranked formats), from the timing data on record for the event.
- Marks the results official on the public results page.
- Only includes active registrations; withdrawn, cancelled or no-show entries are left out of placings.
You can re-publish if data changed. It recomputes from the current data rather than duplicating. Because published results are what athletes screenshot and share, re-publishing asks you to confirm first.
Reading and exporting
The results page is public for public and unlisted events; private events require access. From the manage screen you can:
- View the results page.
- Export a spreadsheet (CSV) for your records or to hand to a federation. For a sportive the export carries no positions either, the same neutral shape as the page.
Chip timing
If you run chip timing, timed results can be brought into Aster and matched to athletes by bib number, through Aster's results integration rather than an upload button in the organiser screens. This is currently the way official, publishable timing data gets into an event. If chip timing is your authority for placings, or you want results ready to publish without it, get in touch via the contact page to set it up.
Reliving the event: replay
Every finished event has a replay: a play-back of the whole field moving along the route over time, so athletes and spectators can watch how it unfolded after the fact. It's linked from the event page. Athletes also get a replay of their own ride.
Good to know
- Finished is finished. Because a finisher's result freezes at the line, late GPS data that arrives afterwards can complete their trail up to the finish but never changes their time or position. See Running the event on race day.
- For an athlete whose phone was offline at the line, you can mark them finished yourself so their record is right. See the same guide.
- A hidden athlete stays hidden in results too. An athlete who's turned on Hide my location for the event is left out of the public results page and its CSV export entirely, name, gender, age band and time alike, the same as they're left off the live map. You still see them, and their full result, on your own manage screen. See Who can see your location?.