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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
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have collected 83.637.367 Cotacol points
- Dominique did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent yesterday
- Gunther did Le Grinquier-Ouest yesterday
- Cédric did Le Maultienne yesterday
- Simon did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent and Côte du Ry d'Oneux yesterday
- Guillaume did Smeysberg yesterday
- Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
- Olivier did Moskesstraat yesterday
- Martin did La Voie des Chars and Côte d'Avister yesterday
- David did Côte de l'observatoire yesterday
- jules did Côte de Brume-Est I, L'Ancienne Barrière and Côte de Lorcé yesterday
- Joris did Ganzenberg and Berendries yesterday
- Jonathan did Côte de Thimister and Côte de Lixhe yesterday
- Geneviève did Côte du Bois de Cerfontaine and Côte de Soumoy yesterday
- « Charlie » did Côte de l'Eau Rouge, Côte des Rappes and Côte de la Cambuse yesterday
- Robert did Côte de Colonster yesterday
- Jean-François did Côte de Loyers yesterday
- Arthur did Côte de Trasenster-Nord yesterday
- Christoph did Côte de la Kérité yesterday
- Olivier did Côte de Loyers and Trou Perdu yesterday
- Eric did Molenberg, Eikenberg, Volkegemberg and 1 more yesterday
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