Dear Zone4 Family, From all the members of the Zone4 Team, we wanted to connect in these challenging times. We continue to be guided by the advice of our public health officials and, like each of you, we are making decisions each day with the health of our employees and our community in mind. We …
Zone4 is heading to Bermuda!
Zone4 timing is hitting the world stage with their GoChip technology this spring in Bermuda. ‘We are super excited that we’re timing big events like this. Timing the World Triathlon in Bermuda as well as Triathlon World Championship in Edmonton in August shows how Zone4’s systems are trusted at the elite level,’ says Zone4 founder, …
X-country ski season in full swing
Things are humming around Zone4 these days. Hundreds of new GoChips have been built to meet the demand for x-country ski races and loppets happening across Canada and the US. In the fall we created a tutorial series to help clubs brush up on their Zone4 timing skills. We go over testing timing points at …
‘Behind the Scene’ with Zone 4 timing at the NorAm Super Tour
'Cross Country Skiing, in particular Sprint Heats, are by far the most challenging races to time. You have to be perfect and have results published within moments of each heat, so the right athletes can get advanced on to the semis and finals. That puts such a high bar on the performance of the equipment, …
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Biathlon season has begun!
Zone 4 was timing the Biathlon Canada, Biathlon Selection Trials earlier this month at the Canmore Nordic Centre. Over the three day event, athletes had to contend with a wide range of temperatures, snow and variable winds. Matt Strum (part-time Zone 4 staff) skied fast and shot clean during his final race and made the …
Searching for events by location
There's a lot of stuff on Zone4 lately! And with ski season about to start, there's going to be even more soon. This means you have to scroll a bit sometimes to find what you're looking for on our homepage. To make things easier, we've enabled location filtering on Zone4.ca: just click the little place …
A Refresh of our Start List Building Tools
As we've expanded into new sports and met new customers, we've found new requirements and learned new patterns that our tools need to support. So today we're updating the start list tools with a few new features, a bit more intelligence, and a new layout with a bit more space for the new features to …
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Downhill South East- Snowshoe Mountain WV
Last weekend was a really fun one! I got the chance to go down at the Final weekend of the Downhill South East Series. The finals were happening at Snowshoe Mountain Resort in West Virginia. It is a very remote location for the East coast but somewhere that all the mountain biking and especially downhill …
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A Busy Winter At The Ski Resorts
About a year ago, I was sitting in front of my desk at the Zone4 office and Canmore when my phone rang, I could see it was a call coming from the province of British Columbia. I answered the phone and started a wonderful conversation with someone who had a dream to help her sport …
Striving Towards Excellence
Zone4 was founded in 2001 by Canadian Olympic cross country skier Dan Roycroft while he was still an athlete. At the time, Dan could see that there was an opportunity to improve timing and online registration in order to allow clubs and organizations to better manage their memberships and events. His mission in 2001 was …
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