The Wrecker 26 — Results
27th–31st August 2026 · Final results
19 riders started. 13 made Herne Hill.
Andrew Broadway took it by 7h16m, with Maxime Brochard completing the podium in 3rd. And after four and a half days and 740 km, 12th and 13th place were split by under two minutes. These are the final, verified results.
Overall podium
Ranked on total elapsed time, King Harry Ferry to Herne Hill Velodrome.
Age category results
Bands were set to guarantee at least three official finishers per category; individual ages aren't published.
- 1st Maxime Brochard 3d 05:45:00
- 2nd William Merrett 3d 18:19:51
- 3rd Moritz Traxel 4d 02:44:01
- 4th Charles Rigby 4d 14:01:27
- 1st Andrew Broadway 2d 14:10:04
- 2nd Cliff Elwell 4d 10:07:34
- 3rd Wai Lee 4d 11:36:34
- 4th Jonathan Brook 4d 14:32:45
- 1st Jason Robinson 2d 21:26:11
- 2nd Colin Cartwright 3d 09:50:11
- 3rd George Laguillo 3d 12:27:10
- 4th Charlie Codrington 4d 04:49:54
- 5th Tim Lowe 4d 14:34:25
Race progression
Overall position over real elapsed race time, official finishers only. Rank 1 at top — a line's horizontal speed is that rider's actual pace, and where it lands is when they finished. Click a name to trace one rider.
Amber-flagged splits in the full leaderboard below are interpolated, not observed -- see methodology. Gridlines mark elapsed race time (in days), not checkpoints — hover a point to see which checkpoint it is and exactly when that rider reached it.
Full leaderboard
Tap a rider for checkpoint-by-checkpoint splits. marks an interpolated (not observed) split.
Excluded & DNF
Recorded but not part of the official standings — full route not followed, or no finish recorded.
How these results were verified
The Wrecker is self-supported and self-tracked — there's no chip timing, just riders' own GPS dots and checkpoint photos. Every finish time here has been cross-checked against tracker logs and rider-submitted evidence before being called official.
- Helen Willis and Lisa Greenhalgh are excluded from the standings — the full route wasn't followed — but their recorded times are published above for the record.
- Where a rider's tracker dropped a checkpoint but has a confirmed time either side of it, the missing passage is interpolated using the event-wide median split for that section (table below). Every interpolated split is flagged.
- No interpolation is applied to excluded or DNF riders — their tables show recorded checkpoints only.
- Two finish times were adjusted using timestamped finish-line photos where they gave a more precise read than the raw tracker log.
- One finisher's time was recalculated against their individual start — they set off later than the field's 08:50 departure, which the original tracker-derived elapsed time didn't account for.
Median elapsed time at each checkpoint, used as the interpolation factor:
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