BRUSSELS HILL CLIMB CHALLENGE

Who will make it to the top first? 

BHCC #4 IS OVER!

SEE YOU IN 2025

The Brussels Hill Climb Challenge is back.
And its bigger and better than ever.

To mark the growing popularity of gravel riding, this years challenge will include both a road and a gravel competition.
Each week (for 5 weeks) starting on 8th January, we’ll set two Strava segments to be ridden, a road and a gravel segment. You’ll score points, as in previous years for your performance on the segments, with the points counting towards separate road and gravel competitions. Both competitions will culminate in a Grande Finale on an astonishing mix up between gravel and road on Sunday 18 February.
You’re free to enter either or both competitions after registering for the Brussels Hill Climb Challenge in the dedicated Strava Club. To complete the challenge and find your place on the leaderboard you’ll need to complete as regularly as possible in either discipline (keeping in mind that your 5th best performance or no show in each is dropped from the scoring). Full rules and scoring schemes are on the website

The 5 "road" segments of BHCC #4 (2024)

  • Length: 950m / Average gradient: 5%
  • Strava segment: Holstheide
  • Length: 230m / Average gradient: 12.4%
  • Strava segment: Ratelberg
  • Length: 960m / Average gradient: 4.9%
  • Strava segment: Bollestraat
  • Length: 460m / Average gradient: 4.5%
  • Strava segment: Hutselenberg

This year we have cobbles for dessert ! Crabbegat is one of the oldest hollow ways in Brussels. It’s hidden along Wolvendael Park in Uccle. It is steep and long, narrow and wild! We combine the finale for gravel and road. A perfect match. Gravel, mountain or road bike, who will make it to the top first?

👉 Info
👉 Registration 

Just one piece of advice in dutch: “Krab maar al eens aan uw gat, want hier is Krabbegat!”

The 5 "gravel" segments of BHCC #4 (2024)

  • Length: 710m / Average gradient: 2.9%
  • Strava segment: Bedevaartsweg
  • Length: 590m / Average gradient: 4.8%
  • Strava segment: Varkensgatweg
  • Length: 910m / Average gradient: 3.1%
  • Strava segment: Fer à cheval

This year we have cobbles for dessert ! Crabbegat is one of the oldest hollow ways in Brussels. It’s hidden along Wolvendael Park in Uccle. It is steep and long, narrow and wild! We combine the finale for gravel and road. A perfect match. Gravel, mountain or road bike, who will make it to the top first?

👉 Info
👉 Registration 

Just one piece of advice in dutch: “Krab maar al eens aan uw gat, want hier is Krabbegat!”

Strava

REGISTER NOW ON STRAVA

Register on the dedicated Strava Club, and you’ll automatically be registered for 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.

HILL #1

HILL #2

HILL #3

HILL #4

HILL #5

GRANDE FINALE // CRABBEGAT

Final classification (men + women)
In accordance with the rules of the challenge, the worst performance has been taken off automatically after round 9. 

Hills classifications

  • Hill #10 – Finale, Mont des Arts – Kunstberg
  • 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

Checkout all the hills classifications

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

  1. 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.
  2. The start and stop line are taken from Strava.
  3. This is a solo effort that you do on any day that suits you that week.
  4. Participants must ride alone and cannot benefit from the draft of other riders or vehicles.
  5. Starting at speed is permitted.
  6. Timing is only accounted for between the start and stop segment.
  7. Timing is managed by a GPS recording uploaded to Strava.
  8. Participants must post their ride publicly on Strava and be members of the BHCC Strava Club for results to be registered.
  9. 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.
  10. 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

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.

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BHCC 4 (c) N Brookes (1)
bhcc vainqueurs
BHCC 4 (c) N Brookes (2)
BHCC 4 (c) N Brookes (8)
BHCC 2
BHCC 4 (c) N Brookes (3)
Back to 2024 Grande Finale
BHCC#12
Mont-des-Arts BHCC#1
BHCC#1
BHCC#21
BHCC #3 - Max K
BHCC 2
BHCC#11
Back to 2023 Grande Finale
BHCC 16
BHCC 18
BHCC 22
BHCC 5
BHCC 17
BHCC 2
BHCC 7
Back to 2022 Grande Finale

MAJOR BHCC PARTNERS

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OFFICIAL BHCC PARTNERS

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