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
9701 registered users
have collected 84.549.523 Cotacol points
- Bert did Berendries today
- Thijs did Schapenheide today
- Edouard did Côte de Charneux today
- Beren did Moskesstraat today
- Julien did Route de la Sarte and Les Neuf Bonniers today
- Bram did Krekelenberg and Bruine Put today
- Sven did Kesterbeekbos today
- Briek did Baneberg today
- Dominique did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent today
- Arnaud did Côte de Bioul today
- Sven did Côte de la Ferme du Pré today
- Maarten did Smeysberg today
- Thierry did En Cowa today
- Pierre did Côte du Rosier-Est, Sur le Thier and Côte de Werbomont today
- Oscarito did Berendries today
- Gérard did Côte de Stockay, Mur d'Amay, Thier Philippart and 1 more today
- Théo did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg today
- Laurent did Mont Saint-Rock today
- David did Achterberg today
- Tahys did Côte de Silenrieux yesterday



