French timing company MATSPORT and MYLAPS Sports Technology have announced a long-term agreement. This sees MYLAPS timing technology deployed at elite cycling races and mass participation sports events across Europe.
Based in France, MATSPORT offers timing services to sports events all over Europe: from road cycling to running, and from triathlon to winter sports, and more.
Founded in 1982, MYLAPS’ automatic sports timing is used all over the world, from the Olympics, major marathons and NASCAR to local races. MATSPORT will utilise MYLAPS ProChip technology, an active timing system for high-speed sports with a claimed accuracy up to 0.003 second. The durable event timing chips are also reusable, so event organizers can save on waste.
The ProChip Smart Decoder is claimed to be the smallest and lightest timing decoder in the industry. For mass participation events MATSPORT uses BibTag technology with affordable chips and high data read-rates. ThinTags are 75% thinner than regular tags. This results in less waste and less shipment space, which helps with carbon emissions during transport.
‘We are thrilled to work together with the global leader in sports timing,” said Bruno Cordier, CEO at MATSPORT. “We can’t wait to start offering premium chip and transponder timing to all our sports events, athletes and fans.”
Mike Terpstra, Team Lead Active Sports at MYLAPS EMEA, said “At MYLAPS we strive to offer the ultimate sports experience to athletes, followers and events. We have a passion for sports and cycling, and it’s great to see that MATSPORT has that same passion. We are excited that MATSPORT chooses our technology to offer the best timing experience to the world’s best athletes. We look forward to working together in the coming years.”
