Cotacol Hunting

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.

 

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Combined achievements

9752 registered users

have collected 85.446.167 Cotacol points

  • Antoine did Côte de Gives yesterday
  • Johan did Muur van Geraardsbergen and Bosberg yesterday
  • Christophe did Paterberg yesterday
  • Debaes-Baezie did Col de la Croix-Jubaru yesterday
  • Jerome did Chemin des Blés yesterday
  • Bert did Côte de Trieu and La Tailette yesterday
  • David did Roeselberg yesterday
  • Charles did Sud Chansin, Côte de la Haute-Marlagne and Fond de Nîmes yesterday
  • philippe did La Chausseé Romaine yesterday
  • Clement did Côte Maquisard yesterday
  • Benoit did Côte de Hermalle-sous-Huy yesterday
  • Leon did Col du Rideux-Nord Est and Les Kimones yesterday
  • Ive did Congoberg yesterday
  • Marc did Côte Barrage de la Gileppe yesterday
  • Herman did Roeselberg yesterday
  • jan did Moskesstraat yesterday
  • Steve did Kemmelberg-Oost, Kemmelberg-West, Kemmelberg-Zuid and 1 more yesterday
  • Pascal did Paterberg yesterday
  • Thibaut did Mur de Huy and Peu d'Eau yesterday
  • Théo did Fond de Nîmes, Côte de Salet and Côte de Bauche yesterday

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