Cotacol 2024 unwrapped
How it all started
The COTACOL is a belgian reference book about cycling uphill, made by Daniel Gobert and Jean-Pierre Legros in 1989. In it are descriptions of the thousand toughest climbs for cyclists. Each climb is described by several facts: name, a short description, height, grade, length, what state the road surface is in, average climbing time for an amateur or a professional road cyclist. The combined authors measured 1.869.800 km, rode up a height of 112.396 meters and measured nearly 30.000 data points to compose this book. Each hill has a so-called COTACOL score. This score is determined using several parameters: grade, length, road surface. A higher score means a tougher climb. More than 30 years later, some cycling & tech enthousiasts virtually got together and built apps, web sites and integrated with Strava, so that the modern cyclist can now plan rides to conquer as much Cotacols as possible and automatically flag them when integrating with Strava.
Combined achievements
9752 registered users
have collected 85.425.256 Cotacol points
- Ive did Congoberg today
- Jérémy did Côte de l'Abbaye today
- Maxime did Bruine Put today
- Jul did Berendries today
- Pas did Côte de Bérismenil today
- Reinoud did Les Chavées, Côte de Libois, Côte d'Ossogne and 1 more today
- Sem did Congoberg today
- Joris did Rue Nélis, Sente de la Traverse, Côte de la Haute-Marlagne and 2 more today
- Florian did Congoberg today
- Jens did Smeysberg today
- Thomas did La Haute Folie, Côte de Saint-Denis and Côte de la Grand-Place today
- Sam did Mont-Saint-Aubert Sud-Est today
- Eric did Col du Marly, Col de Ronchinne and La Gayolle today
- Bruno did Côte du Caillou qui bique today
- Diego did Le Mont Coupé today
- Guillaume did Côte du Pont Alsort today
- LN did Kesterbeekbos today
- Thibault did De Monteberg, Kemmelberg-Oost, Kemmelberg-West and 5 more today
- Christian did Côte de Trasenster-Nord today
- Stefano did Moskesstraat and Smeysberg today



