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
9733 registered users
have collected 85.106.723 Cotacol points
- Thibault did Côte du Beau Vallon today
- Rolf did Kuiperenberg today
- olivier did Côte de Facqueval today
- Tom did Holstraat today
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- Mika did Smeysberg today
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- Sébastien did Le Sartage today
- Tom did Côte du Gerny and La Croix-Maillard today
- Koert did Koppenberg today
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- Bram did Schlierbach-Ost and Der Alesberg today
- Simon did Toverberg today
- Jacky did Côte du Caillou qui bique and Tierne Carion today
- Jo did Charly-des-Bois today
- Grégoire did Côte Maquisard today
- Alexis did Sur Waha today
- Stijn did Smeysberg today



