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Belgium

# KOPPENBERG SLOPES

CYCLOCROSS 1 NOV MUD BELGIUM

CYCLOCROSS · OUDENAARDE

THE COBBLED WALL AND ITS STEEP MEADOWS

LAP 2.85 KM

CLIMBING +106 M

OBSTACLES 9

CORNERS 42

TIGHTEST R 3 M

ON FOOT 31 M

RIDERS 0

## THE LAP

The lap's surfaces from the line round, 2.85 km: grass 2,655 m, cobbles 195 m; a tick at each obstacle

grass 2,655 m cobbles 195 m an obstacle

Elevation profile: 106 m of climbing over a 2.85 km lap, the surfaces under it

Map of Koppenberg Slopes, north up

## THE COURSE

**HOST**

Oudenaarde, Belgium

**WORLD CUP**

Not on the World Cup since 2022-23: one of the classics.

**RACE DAY**

1 NOV: usually muddy.

**SETTING**

A steep hillside.

**ON FOOT**

31 m a lap, in 1 stretch.

**SECTIONS**

The Koppenberg cobbles (from 0 m), The pit (from 35 m), Under the Koppenberg wood (from 149 m), The low meadow (from 362 m), The middle meadow (from 719 m), The pit (from 1168 m), The S-bends (from 1308 m), The slope to Rotelenberg (from 1668 m), Rotelenberg meadow (from 2054 m), The climb to the cobbles (from 2328 m), The Koppenberg cobbles (from 2677 m)

## 9 OBSTACLES

Koppenberg Slopes: its obstacles from the line

| Obstacle | At | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| THE PIT | 102 m | The double pit: a clean bike, once a lap |
| DESCENT | 274 m | A steep drop |
| DESCENT | 591 m | A steep drop |
| RUN-UP | 652 m | Too steep to ride: everyone runs |
| DESCENT | 1546 m | A steep drop |
| DESCENT | 1692 m | A steep drop |
| DESCENT | 1819 m | A steep drop |
| DESCENT | 2299 m | A steep drop |
| DESCENT | 2626 m | A steep drop |

42 bends round the stakes as well, everyone braking into them: the tightest, R 3 m, at 16 km/h at most.

## HOW IT'S RACED

### CROSS RACE

So many laps of a cyclocross course from a mass start, first over the line wins. Lapped riders are pulled.

- 1 to 10 laps, 3 unless you choose.
- A mass start on the start straight, from the grid: you and the robots in the game, or people in a group ride, robots filling the field.
- Lapped riders are pulled: lose a lap to the leaders and you're out, behind everyone still racing.
- On the stairs, the run-ups and the deepest sand everyone jumps off and runs, the bike on the shoulder: your power buys a running pace of up to 12 km/h, 8 on the stairs.
- The bends cap your speed as a crit's corners do: 18 km/h round a 4 m hairpin. On a trainer the speed is capped, never the power, and the trainer feels the grass, the mud and the sand.
- If your trainer or connection drops, you get one free lap: back in at the rear. Never in the last 3 laps.

## LEADERBOARD

The best lap: one lap of the course from a standing start on the line (no race chosen in the game). A race's laps never go on the board.

- [OVERALL](https://pedalmania.cc/routes/cx-koppenberg#board)
- [MEN](https://pedalmania.cc/routes/cx-koppenberg?sex=M#board)
- [WOMEN](https://pedalmania.cc/routes/cx-koppenberg?sex=F#board)

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