The Riders tab shows every athlete in the event and updates live as they progress. What each row shows depends on the event format — some formats are races with published standings, and some deliberately are not.
Meet-ups are the exception: there's no Riders tab at all. A meet-up has no clock and no rankings, so the live picture is the Map tab only — you see each rider's marker, but there's no standings list to read. The event's About tab shows who's going (an RSVP list), which is a roster, not a live progress view.
What each row shows
- The athlete's name, bib and category
- Their status — Entered (registered, not yet riding), Ready (tracking armed, waiting for the start), on course, Finished, DNS or DNF
- Their live progress — distance done and to go (with laps on multi-lap courses), or elapsed time, depending on the format
- For ranked formats: position and gap to the leader
Tap a row to jump to that athlete on the map and see their live stats. Tapping a rider also adds them to your favourites for this event, so their marker stays easy to find — see Reading the live map and trails.
Filtering the list
Above the list you can narrow it to what you care about:
- Category chips — tap a category to hide or show it, with a Hide all / Show all shortcut. The same categories are hidden on the map, so the list and the markers always agree.
- Team and a name search box.
Filtering works without an account and only changes what you see.
On events where the organiser allows it, an athlete can choose to hide their live location — a hidden athlete's row doesn't appear in this list at all (not just on the map), and they're left out of the published results too. See Watch an event live.
How each format presents
- Race (mass start): everyone is on the same clock — the gun. Standings reflect who is furthest along the course, and gaps are shown as time behind the leader. First across the line wins.
- Time trial: each rider runs their own clock, started when they cross the start gate. Standings are by fastest elapsed time, and gaps compare each rider's time.
- Sportive / gran fondo: no positions, anywhere — see below.
- Point-to-point: timed (each rider gets an elapsed time) but deliberately not ranked — no positions or gaps. Rows show who's on course and who's finished, with their time.
- Meet-up: untimed — no clock and no rankings, and no Riders tab at all. The live picture is the map only; see above.
Distances are measured along the course from the start, so what you see reflects real progress on the route, not straight-line distance.
Why sportives show times but no positions
A sportive isn't a race — that's a matter of how the event is run and insured, not a technicality. So Aster never publishes a finishing order for a sportive:
- Rows are listed by bib number and name, not by who's fastest.
- Live riders show "On course" and their elapsed time; finishers show "Finished" and their time.
- No gaps, no leader, no podium language — on the live view, in the results, and in notifications.
Every rider still gets their own accurate time. If you want to see how a particular rider is going relative to a friend, you can compare them yourself — that's your query, not the event's publication.
Live, but consistent
The leaderboard updates live (with a periodic refresh as a fallback if your connection is patchy). It's calculated from the same trusted set of GPS points as the map and the trails, so the distance you see in the list always matches the marker on the map.
Finished, DNS and DNF
- Finished athletes lock in their final time (and position, on ranked formats) — they won't move or re-rank afterwards.
- DNF (did not finish) athletes are shown as such and aren't ranked as finishers.
- DNS (did not start) marks athletes who registered but never set off.
Ending an activity early produces a DNF on every format except a meet-up. On race and time trial that's via Abandon; a sportive or point-to-point has no Abandon button (it ends with the same slide-to-end control as a Just Ride), but stopping early is still a DNF — unranked doesn't mean there's no "failure to finish" to record. Only a meet-up always marks the athlete Finished instead, since it's untimed with nothing to fail. An organiser-set cutoff, or a manual roster change, can still mark any format DNF, meet-ups included.