Muur van Geraardsbergen
Geraardsbergen, België
De Muur van Geraardsbergen is een beklimming van 1.1 kilometer. Dit is een beklimming van categorie 4. Het ligt in Geraardsbergen, Vlaams Gewest, België. De gemiddelde helling van deze beklimming is 8.1% met een maximum van 17.6%. De Muur van Geraardsbergen stijgt van 19 meter aan het begin tot 104 meter aan de top, met een totaal van 85 stijgende meters.
Profiel
Feiten
| Afstand | 1.1 km |
| Hoogteverschil | 85 m |
| Gemiddelde helling | 8.1 % |
| Maximale helling | 17.6 % |
| Beklimmingcategorie | 4 |
| Minimale hoogte | 19 m |
| Maximale hoogte | 104 m |
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Beschrijving
It was Robert Pierard who pointed out to his friend Karel Van Wijnendaele the existence of a merciless wall in the centre of Geraardsbergen. This is how the Muur made its debut in 1950 in professional cycling.
The Omloop Het Volk was the first professional cyclist race that went on to the Muur van Geraardsbergen on Sunday, March 5, 1950. One month later, on Sunday 1 April 1950, the heroes of the Tour of Flanders also got the Wall of Geraardsberge on the program. Fiorenzo Magni wriggled up there but behind his back, there was complete chaos on the stones of Oudenberg, as the hill is officially called. The cobbles were slippery because of the abundant rain.
Due to carelessness on the part of the police commissioner, a lost driver with his American car ended up in the caravan. Just on the steepest part of the barely three and a half meter wide Muur his car failed due to lack of fuel. If helpful spectators hadn't helped him out quickly, the passage of the cyclists would have turned out to be a catastrophe.
The organizer of the Tour de France, Jacques Goddet, who had followed the first passage in 1950 and was so enthusiastic that he decided to include the Muur van Geraardsbergen in the next Tour de France. The first passage of the Tour took place on Thursday 5 July 1951: in order to avoid any difficulties on the narrow Muur, Goddet removed it from the course and opted for a detour along the Kloosterstraat - Oude Steenweg.
Because of the chaos in 1953, the climb was cut out of the route of the Tour de Flanders, and only the steep Kloosterstraat remained.
The actual Muur was restored to its former glory in 1970 and was extended to the Kapel Muur in 1981.
In the Binckback Tour of 2020, Mathieu van der Poel performed an impressive solo of almost 75 km in order to win the stage and also the final classification. He started this solo with an attack on the 2nd passage (of the 5) of Muur van Geraardsbergen. After a blistering final he had just enough seconds left to stay out of the grip of the other general classification riders.