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
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have collected 75.918.756 Cotacol points
- Aymeric did Côte de la Ferme de Sart today
- Nico did Côte de la Ferme de Sart today
- jules did Côte de Niaster today
- Pierre did Sur le Thier and Côte de Neufmarteau today
- Maxime did La Chausseé Romaine today
- Xav did Charly-des-Bois today
- Ruben did Baneberg and Rodeberg-West today
- Julien did Côte de l'Abbaye today
- tim did Helling van Kraai today
- Bram did Côte de Desnie, Les Forges I and Côte de Dolembreux today
- Noel did Côte de Fraiture today
- Mauro did Bosberg and Bosberg today
- Hugo did Bosberg today
- Quinten did Berendries and Côte du Bois de la Houppe today
- philippe did Côte de Hermalle-sous-Huy today
- Eli did Kasteelstraat today
- Arnaud did Côte de Haut-Bois, Côte d'Anton, Côte de Stud and 4 more today
- Arnaud did Plattenberg today
- Maikel did Côte de Trieu today
- Thibault did Côte du Bois de la Houppe today