Fitness race photos found by bib number or selfie

A fitness race happens in an arena full of numbers: station signs, heat and lane numbers, rower and SkiErg displays, weight plates, clocks and screens. Athletes are bent over a sled or half hidden behind a rowing machine, and heats run back to back all day. A photo set like this is hard to sort by hand and hard for a generic number reader.

Choose Fitness when you create the event. Recognition reads only numbers on athletes: a bib on the chest or a race belt, and a number on the upper arm or calf, as a temporary tattoo or marker. When the same number shows on the bib and on the arm, it counts once. An athlete partly hidden by equipment is still found when the number is readable. Rowers, SkiErgs, bikes and their displays, sleds, wall balls, kettlebells, sandbags, weight plates, station signs, heat numbers, screens and clocks are ignored.

Add the list of valid numbers so that only participant numbers count. Selfie search finds athletes in the shots where the number is turned away, and the timeline lets them browse by the time of their heat.

Photographers upload between heats from the browser, a cloud folder or straight from the camera over FTP, and photos are searchable minutes after upload, while athletes are still in the venue. Embed the gallery on your event site or share a link with the results. If you decide to sell photos, connect Stripe and payments go to your own account.