Bentang Jawa · 2021–2026
Bentang Jawa All Editions
Six races across Java, 775 entries by 608 riders. Everything here compares editions on speed rather than time, because the course grew from 1,444 km to 1,506 km and the raw times are not comparable. Riders are matched by identity, never by cap number — caps are reissued every year.
The records
Held on average speed over each edition's own distance. A raw time cannot carry a record across a course that has grown by 61 km — about three quarters of an hour of riding at the front of the race — so the fastest ride is the one that covered the most road per hour, with its time printed beside it.
6 editions
Counts throughout this section are riders, not units — a pair is two of them.
The field, edition by edition
Everyone who entered, and what became of them. Did-not-start is hatched rather than coloured because it is an absence rather than an outcome — those riders never rolled out.
Winning speed, edition by edition
The fastest classified unit in each category, over that edition's own distance. Speed rather than time, because the course moved 61 km across the six editions and the times are not comparable.
| Edition | Distance km | Climb m | Entrants | Started | Classified | Rate | Women | Pairs | Foreign | Winning km/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1,444.2 | 14,914 | 38 | 37 | 22 | 59% | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13.81 |
| 2022 | 1,481.2 | 16,747 | 71 | 65 | 45 | 69% | 10 | 10 | 3 | 17.03 |
| 2023 | 1,484.6 | 16,702 | 123 | 116 | 68 | 59% | 12 | 10 | 11 | 17.47 |
| 2024 | 1,500.0 | 17,339 | 162 | 149 | 89 | 60% | 15 | 16 | 25 | 18.4 |
| 2025 | 1,502.2 | 17,365 | 181 | 173 | 119 | 69% | 12 | 15 | 20 | 19.44 |
| 2026 | 1,505.5 | 17,555 | 200 | 194 | 141 | 73% | 16 | 26 | 29 | 18.42 |
Who comes back
Retention runs through rider identity rather than cap numbers. Of the riders who started one edition, this is how many started the next.
| From | To | Started | Came back | Return rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2022 | 37 | 16 | 43% |
| 2022 | 2023 | 65 | 16 | 25% |
| 2023 | 2024 | 116 | 19 | 16% |
| 2024 | 2025 | 149 | 25 | 17% |
| 2025 | 2026 | 173 | 23 | 13% |
And whether the race teaches people how to finish it: the finish rate for riders on their first Bentang Jawa against those who had ridden one before.
Every rider
608 people, each with every edition they entered and how it ended. This is what cap numbers could never answer, because a cap is reissued every year and belongs to a different rider each time.
