Is there a Strava QOM finder for hunting the women’s leaderboard?
Yes — Tailwind KOMpass works as a full QOM finder, not a KOM tool with the women’s leaderboard bolted on. Set your gender on Strava (or flip one switch in settings) and every number in the app — the segment ranking, the gap badges, the power estimates, the wind alerts — is computed against the QOM instead of the KOM.
QOM hunting also has a structural advantage: women’s leaderboards are thinner, so many segments have a soft QOM — and plenty have no QOM at all. Tailwind KOMpass explicitly flags those open segments: ride it once and the record is yours.
Open the QOM FinderHow the QOM Finder works
- Connect Strava and the app reads your profile: riders with their gender set to woman automatically target the QOM everywhere — no separate mode to find. A manual override in settings lets anyone target either leaderboard.
- Pick a spot on the map and every Strava segment in the radius is ranked by how achievable the QOM looks for your FTP and weight, with filters for length, gradient and the speed the record was set at.
- Segments with no QOM yet are surfaced, not hidden — the app marks them "No QOM yet — your first effort takes it", which is the fastest crown you will ever earn.
- The QOM-proximity filter compares your own best times to each record and surfaces the segments where you are already within a few percent of the QOM.
- Wind is scored per segment as effective tailwind (wind speed × alignment with the segment bearing), because on flat and rolling roads picking a tailwind day is worth more than months of training.
- Add target segments to a watchlist and get a push or email alert up to 72 hours ahead when the forecast tailwind crosses your threshold.
- Power analysis estimates the watts the current QOM required and the exact tailwind you would need for it to fall — using physiology priors scaled for female riders, not male defaults.
How it compares to other ways of hunting QOMs
Almost every segment-hunting tool is built around the KOM, with the women’s leaderboard an afterthought. Here is how the options line up:
| Tool / method | What it does for finding beatable QOMs |
|---|---|
| Tailwind KOMpass | True QOM mode: ranks nearby segments by QOM beatability for your fitness, flags segments with no QOM at all, computes your gap from your own ride history, and alerts you when the wind turns favourable. |
| Strava segment explore | Shows the QOM time on each leaderboard, but no filtering by your fitness, no wind, and no way to spot open or soft QOMs without opening every segment by hand. |
| KOM-finder apps and scrapers | Almost universally KOM-only — they rank against the men’s record, which makes their "beatable" scores meaningless for QOM hunting. |
| myWindsock | Great wind analysis for a planned route, but it does not discover beatable segments or track the women’s leaderboard for you. |
| Manual leaderboard checking | Works, and thinner women’s leaderboards make it less hopeless than KOM checking — but it is still one segment at a time with no wind planning. |
Frequently asked questions
- What is a QOM on Strava?
- QOM stands for Queen of the Mountain: the fastest time by a woman on a Strava segment, the women’s-leaderboard counterpart of the KOM. Strava awards it automatically to the top woman on each segment leaderboard.
- Are QOMs easier to get than KOMs?
- Often, yes — not because the top times are slow, but because women’s leaderboards have fewer entries. Many segments have a QOM set casually rather than as an all-out effort, and a meaningful number have no QOM at all, so a targeted attempt on the right day frequently succeeds.
- How do I find segments with no QOM yet?
- Tailwind KOMpass marks them explicitly: segments whose women’s leaderboard is empty show as "No QOM yet — your first effort takes it" in the finder and the segment details, instead of being hidden or treated as missing data.
- Do I have to set my gender on Strava to use QOM mode?
- No. If your Strava profile lists you as a woman the app targets the QOM automatically, but there is also a manual target-leaderboard switch in settings, so anyone can hunt either crown regardless of profile settings.
- Is the QOM Finder free?
- Yes. QOM targeting, the finder’s radius mode, effective-tailwind scoring, open-QOM flags and watchlist alerts are all free. A one-time Lifetime upgrade adds 72-hour forecast planning, viewport search and unlimited power analysis.
Open the QOM Finder and see which records near you are within reach this week — including the ones nobody has claimed yet.
Open the QOM Finder