Post by Nedap

Every year, 8,000 students run the 175-kilometer Batavierenrace from Nijmegen to Enschede. This is officially the largest relay race in the world, according to The Guinness Book of World Records. 25 stages, day and night, ending on the campus of the University of Twente. Behind every handover point sits a registration cabinet with a Nedap RFID reader inside. The timing system itself was built by e-Bart, the beta-student committee at the University of Twente. Our readers do the work that makes split-second results possible across the entire route. But the technology is only half the story. At handover points along the route, a team of Nedap colleagues volunteer their weekend to set up the timing equipment, manage the exchanges, and keep things running smoothly for the runners coming through. It won't show up in a spec sheet, but it says everything about how we work. The world's largest relay race runs on Nedap technology and on Nedap colleagues. Congratulations to every runner and every volunteer.