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
8805 registered users
have collected 72.581.628 Cotacol points
- Claude did La Rue Villers today
- Victor did Côte de Dolembreux today
- pierre did Côte de Malempré today
- Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée today
- 🇧🇪 did Côte de Becco today
- Christophe did Le Trémouroux today
- jeremy did Rue Coupée and Rue de La Sèche today
- Jacky did Les Quatre Pavés today
- Tia did Côte de la Ville Haute today
- Louis did Col de la Charlerie and Côte de Sorinne today
- LAURENS did Thier d'Amry, Côte de Lixhe and Plattenberg today
- Wim did Côte de Niaster today
- Fabian did Rue du Laveu today
- Xavier did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent and Côte de Xhavée today
- Augustin did Haut-Baty today
- Bert did Koppenberg and Koppenberg today
- Mathis did Côte de Sovimont today
- Mica did Côte du Moulin d'Olenne today
- Didier did Chemin de Mormont and Le Crawy today
- François did Côte de Brume-Est I today