BRUSSELS HILL CLIMB CHALLENGE
Who will make it to the top first?
THERE WILL BE NO BHCC IN 2024-2025
Register on the dedicated Strava Club, and you’ll automatically be registered for next BHCC, whatever the challenge you’ll take part in (road and/or gravel).
BHCC RESULTS & PALMARES
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
In accordance with the rules of the challenge, the worst performance has been taken off automatically.
- Women // Road : General classification
Winner of GC : Stefanie Carbonez - Women // Gravel: General classification
Winner of GC : Philippine de Radiguès - Men // Road : General classification
Winner of GC : Robin Vanhoutte - Men // Gravel: General classification
Winner of GC : Primoz “Jimmy” Jurak
HILL #1
- Road // Holstheide
- Hill ranking – women
Winner – women: Felicity Roach - Hill ranking – men
Winner – men: Grégoire Lemaire
- Hill ranking – women
- Gravel // Sentier des Sables
- Segment ranking – women
Winner – women: Philippine de Radiguès - Segment ranking – men
Winner – men: Primoz “Jimmy” Jurak
- Segment ranking – women
HILL #2
- Road // Ratelberg
- Hill ranking – women
Winner – women: Sanne De Clerck - Hill ranking – men
Winners – men (ex aequo): Guilhem Baudin / Grégoire Lemaire / Robin Vanhoutte
- Hill ranking – women
- Gravel // Bedevaartsweg
- Segment ranking – women
Winner – women: Philippine de Radiguès - Segment ranking – men
Winner – men: Wouter Heymans
- Segment ranking – women
HILL #3
- Road // Bollestraat
- Hill ranking – women
Winner – women: Juliette Lucarain - Hill ranking – men
Winner – men: Grégoire Lemaire
- Hill ranking – women
- Gravel // Hakenstakendreef
- Segment ranking – women
Winners – women (ex aequo): Stefanie Carbonez / Philippine de Radiguès - Segment ranking – men
Winner – men: Primoz “Jimmy” Jurak
- Segment ranking – women
HILL #4
- Road // Cardinal Mercier
- Hill ranking – women
Winner – women: Stefanie Carbonez - Hill ranking – men
Winner – men: Grégoire Lemaire
- Hill ranking – women
- Gravel // Varkensgatweg
- Segment ranking – women
Winner – women: Philippine de Radiguès - Segment ranking – men
Winner – men: Dominique Rongvaux
- Segment ranking – women
HILL #5
- Road // Hutselenberg
- Hill ranking – women
Winner – women: Juliette Lucarain - Hill ranking – men
Winner – men: Jochem Vermeir
- Hill ranking – women
- Gravel // Fer à cheval
- Segment ranking – women
Winner – women: Stefanie Carbonez - Segment ranking – men
Winner – men: Primoz “Jimmy” Jurak
- Segment ranking – women
GRANDE FINALE // CRABBEGAT
- Hill ranking – women
Winner – women: Stefanie Carbonez - Hill ranking – men
Winner – men: Goeric Daeninck
Final classification (men + women)
In accordance with the rules of the challenge, the worst performance has been taken off automatically after round 9.
- Women : Final classification
Winner of GC : Juliette Lucarain - Men : Final classification
Winner of GC : Laurens Soenen
Hills classifications
- Hill #10 – Finale, Mont des Arts – Kunstberg
- Winner – women: Juliette Lucarain
Hill ranking – women - Winners – men: Goeric Daeninck
Hill ranking – men
- Winner – women: Juliette Lucarain
- Hill #9, Smeysberg
- Hill ranking
- Winner – women: Liza B
- Winners – men: Wouter Heymans
- Hill #8, Route Baccara
- Hill ranking
- Winner – women: Juliette Lucarain
- Winners – men: Laurens Soenen
- Hill #7, Sint Annalaan
- Hill ranking
- Winner – women: Juliette Lucarain
- Winners – men: Dominique Rongvaux & Laurens Soenen
- Hill #6, Eksterenberg
- Hill ranking
- Winner – women: Juliette Lucarain
- Winner – men: Laurens Soenen
- Hill #5, Rue du Mystère
- Hill ranking
- Winner – women: Natalia Cylwik
- Winner – men: Laurens Soenen
- Hill #4, Eeckelstraat
- Hill ranking
- Winner – women: Juliette Lucarain
- Winner – men: Lander Van Droogenbroeck
- Hill #3, Beerselberg
- Hill ranking
- Winner – women: Juliette Lucarain
- Winner – men: Victor Cossement
- Hill #2, Congoberg
- Hill ranking
- Winner – women: Liza B
- Winner – men: Lander Van Droogenbroeck
- Hill #1, Enfants Noyés
- Hill ranking
- Winner – women: Juliette Lucarain
- Winner – men: Max Van Craen
Check-out general classification 2021-2022
- Hill #1, Mazier // Winner: Bjorn Gielen
- Hill #2, Charly des Bois // Winner: Nicolas Brookes
- Hill #3, Bekestraat // Winner: Virgile Loiseau
- Hill #4, Kesterberg // Winner: Bjorn Gielen
- Hill #5, Smeysberg // Winner: Dominique Rongvaux
- Hill #6, Hunselenberg // Winner: Antoine Maisonhaute
- Hill #7, Bruyère du Wez // Winner: Dominique Rongvaux
- Hill #8, Bercuit // Winner: Virgile Loiseau
- Hill #9, Berchembos // Winner: Antoine Maisonhaute
- Hill #,10 Beukenberg // Winner: Goéric Daeninck
Check-out general classification 2020-2021
- Hill #1, Bruine Put // Winner: Miguel Vdb
- Hill #2, Kleinwaverstraat // Winner: Matthias Piens
- Hill #3, Neerpoortstraat // Winner: Anders Aarkrog Jepsen
- Hill #4, Asquemont // Winner: Dominique Rongvaux
- Hill #5, Langestraat // Winner: Jeff Rutten
- Hill #6, Mur de Wavre // Winner: Virgile Loiseau
- Hill #7, Rue du Massy // Winner: Virgile Loiseau
- Hill #8, Smeysberg // Winner: Goéric Daeninck
- Hill #9, Holsteide // Winner: Victor Cossement
RULES OF THE CHALLENGE
The Challenge will run through the winter months and will allow you to show the effect of your awesome training by setting personal best times up a dozen selected hills. Who knows, you might even be strong enough to make it on the leaderboard for a given hill or your incredible consistency might hoist you up the overall points classification!
Each week a hill is open for competition. The challenge is advertised the week before on Strava. Anyone is invited to have a go at setting the fastest time up the selected hill.
Depending on the year, we might propose from 5 to 10 hills, with a “Grande Finale” or not. We might propose gravel segments as well for another kind of challenge, that will be kept separated from the road challenge.
Ride strong, ride safe, ride uphill
- Each hill corresponds to a Strava segment. Be sure to check the segment in advance to make sure you know the landmark that indicates the start and finish line.
- The start and stop line are taken from Strava.
- This is a solo effort that you do on any day that suits you that week.
- Participants must ride alone and cannot benefit from the draft of other riders or vehicles.
- Starting at speed is permitted.
- Timing is only accounted for between the start and stop segment.
- Timing is managed by a GPS recording uploaded to Strava.
- Participants must post their ride publicly on Strava and be members of the BHCC Strava Club for results to be registered.
- Rides of the week must be sent before Sunday 20h00. After that, there is no possibility to modify, upload or ask for any kind of correction.
- You are free to ride up the hill as many times as you feel like it.
A leaderboard is established each week, for each challenge (“Road” – “Gravel”).
There are two different classifications : one for women, one for men.
The point based leaderboard is established over all hills with a grand winner announced at the end of the season. Points for the general classification are awarded with the following rules:
- participation to a hill automatically awards you 200 points.
- your ranking on a hill gives you : 201 – #RankOnHill
If you participate on a hill, you can thus cumulate a maximum of 400 points per hill for first place and a minimum of 200 for placings 201 and beyond.
Complementary rules:
- Your worst performance will be erased at the end of the challenge. This “worst performance” can be a bad ranking or even a no “show”. It will be automatically erased after the 5th round of the challenge.
- The “grande finale” counts as full part of the challenge : you’ll have to be present on Sunday 18 February to get points for the general classification.
The winner of each general classification (man / woman) will have the opportunity to get the BHCC collector “winner jersey”.
COLLECTION OF BHCC ROUTES
The routes’ makers and reviewers of Brussels Big Brackets have prepared routes that include hills selected for BHCC all over the years. One route will take you for a scenic ~50km ride, the other for a ~90km ride.
You’ll find here those suggested rides that include the hills of BHCC.
👉 Results - "Grande Finale"
👉 Photos - "Grande Finale"
👉 Full results - BHCC#4 2024
MAJOR BHCC PARTNERS
OFFICIAL BHCC PARTNERS
