Zwift, the global online training platform, has today announced donations from its biggest charity support month to date, the ‘Tour for All’. The four-week-long series of events raised US$305,000 for Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and its COVID-19 Crisis Fund.
From May 4th to May 30th, cyclists, triathletes, and runners were all invited to complete at least one event in Zwift’s Tour for All, a series of rides and runs that encouraged mass participation by athletes of all abilities. Each event completed by a Zwifter contributed to the overall goal of 250,000 rides or runs in Zwift’s online world. Once this milestone was reached, Zwift would match its initial US$125,000 donation to bring the total to US$250,000.
At the end of the four-week event, Tour for All saw 383,161 event completions, smashing the 250,000 goal and meeting the requirements for unlocking the additional US$125,000 donation. Coupled with personal donations from Tour for All participants to MSF, over US$305,000 was donated to MSF’s COVID-19 Crisis Fund – US$250,000 from Zwift and over US$55,000 from the Zwift community.
“Doctors Without Borders is extremely grateful for the generous support of Zwift and the Zwift community through the Tour for All,” said Avril Benoît, MSF’s Executive Director in the United States.
“As we face an unprecedented global health crisis, we rely on this generosity to respond to this emergency and continue providing medical care in over 70 countries.”
Tour for All by the numbers…
Cycling
367,350 event completions
7.37M miles ridden
3.97M RideOns received
137,000 race completions
63.7K unique Zwifters took part in at least one race
Running
15,811 runs completed
77.9K miles run
167.5K RideOns received
Professional athlete participation
126 top professional cyclists, runners, and triathletes took part in the Tour for All Group events.
“With a Zwift community stretching around the world, we knew we were uniquely positioned to do something big during a critical time,” said Eric Min, Zwift CEO and Co-Founder. “From the best professional athletes to the newest beginner, I am so proud of everyone who made Tour for All such a success.
“Our community came together in a big way for a cause that’s affecting the entire planet and I can’t thank our fellow Zwifters enough for making this happen.”
In addition to the mass-participation ‘Tour for All’ ride and run events, the month-long charity push was started off with a professional exhibition race series featuring 19 of the World’s top men’s and women’s World Tour teams including; Mitchelton-SCOTT, Canyon//SRAM, Boels-Dolmans, EF Education and Groupama FDJ. The team-based series classifications were won by Team NTT Pro Cycling Team and Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank.
Both men’s and women’s races were broadcast daily across Europe in a special two-hour broadcast, reaching 1,990,100 people throughout Europe. Global viewers were also able to stream the action live, and on playback, via the GCN App (viewing figures not available at time of publication).
