SportLedger gives endurance event organisers the first audit-grade, photo-timestamped gear compliance record in the sport — before incidents become claims.
Evidence base: Viljoen et al., Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 2025
SportLedger is built for the bad day — without slowing down the good one.
Trail running fatalities aren't rare edge cases. They are documented, growing in frequency with the sport, and almost always preventable — if the right gear was carried. The problem is proving it happened.
of fatalities had no medical attention before death — teams simply could not reach them in time. The gear was the last line of defence.
catastrophic injuries documented — limb amputations, permanent brain damage, severe burns. All from foreseeable exposures.
Source: Viljoen et al., Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 2025 — peer-reviewed study of serious adverse events 2004–2024
"We check — or our volunteers check all participants before the race. But we have no record of it."The answer every organiser gives when an incident becomes a legal matter
Every event has a mandatory gear list. Almost none have proof the check actually happened. When insurers, lawyers and authorities arrive — and when they do, they arrive fast — volunteer testimony is the only evidence. And it doesn't hold up.
Four steps from chaos to a court-ready compliance report. 85–90% of your participants are verified before they even arrive on race morning.
The compliance report isn't just a product feature — it's a structural shift in your legal position, your race day, and your post-event visibility.
90-minute queues, volunteer stress, delayed starts. 85–90% of participants pre-verified. Race morning becomes administration, not improvisation.
No record of any check — the most common and most damaging answer. Timestamped photos, reviewer identity, immutable logs. Disputes resolve on evidence.
Anecdotal reports and sponsor conversations. Aggregated gear compliance data, submission rates, and trend reporting across events.
SportLedger is purpose-built for the events where mandatory gear isn't a formality — it's the difference between a runner surviving a weather event and not.
Strict mandatory gear lists, international participants, broadcast visibility. Liability follows exposure.
Weather-dependent requirements, remote terrain, high medical response time. Gear is the margin.
Complex gear requirements across multiple checkpoints. Mandatory kit changes by stage and terrain.
1,000+ participants mean 3–4 hour bottlenecks from manual checks. SportLedger eliminates the queue.
If your event checks any of the boxes above — SportLedger can save you hours on race day and protect you for years after.
12%
Annual growth in trail running since 201025k+
Trail races hosted globally 2013–20191.7M
Estimated participants in that periodWe are onboarding our first events now. The organisers who pilot SportLedger in 2026 help shape the compliance standard before it becomes the industry default across European trail and ultra racing. Australia already has informal versions of this. Europe has nothing equivalent — yet.
This is precisely why we include mandatory race-day spot checks — not just pre-race photos.
The two-phase approach: pre-race photo submission (80–90% pre-verified) + race-day spot checks on a random or risk-based selection (15–30 seconds per person). You get the efficiency of pre-verification and the enforcement of physical checks. Neither phase is optional by design.
If you prefer to run everything on race day only, that is also supported — though it doesn't unlock the full efficiency benefit.
At 1,000 participants: from 3–4 hours to approximately 45 minutes. That's a 75% reduction.
Plus 30–50 volunteer-hours saved per event. Faster check-in means happier participants and on-time starts — which has downstream effects on volunteer retention and sponsor satisfaction.
We are not lawyers and cannot guarantee legal outcomes. What we can provide is court-ready evidence of due diligence — which is materially stronger than having nothing.
The compliance report contains: timestamped photos, reviewer identity, item-level approval status, and an immutable audit log. If an incident occurs, you have documented proof that you enforced your mandatory gear requirements — systematically, not informally. That is a fundamentally different legal position than "we checked but have no record."
We are in active discussion with multiple insurers across Europe — including specialists in trail, triathlon and adventure racing events. The pitch to insurers is straightforward: SportLedger creates the first verifiable, compliance-linked data set in endurance sports, enabling differentiated underwriting.
Currently, most insurers treat all events identically because there is no data to distinguish compliance levels. That changes with SportLedger. Pilot events will be among the first with documented compliance records when those conversations advance.
Yes — we can set up a demo account before you decide. The pilot itself is also structured as a risk-free entry: the first event is completely free, with a money-back guarantee if the outcome doesn't meet expectations.
Contact us at contact@sportledger.io and we will arrange a 15-minute walkthrough within 48 hours.
10 spots in 2026. The first event is completely free. Reach out and we will respond within 24 hours.
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