Mur de Huy, the 1,300 metre-high hill near the town of Huy in Belgium is best known for being the place where the spring classic La Flèche Wallonne is decided each year, and where the Spanish star Alejandro Valverde scored a total of five victories.

In La Flèche Wallonne, cyclists must do three laps of a circuit that includes Mur de Huy. In Team Rynkeby’s world, the cyclists only need to climb it once, but it’s going to be a big challenge for many of them, and it has made the steep hill a bit of a legend among team members. 

In pure numbers, Mur de Huy is 128 metres from top to bottom and has an average gradient of 9.8%.

It will be the last 800 metres from Place St. Denis in particular that will pose a challenge to the Team Rynkeby cyclists.

Here the average gradient is around 13% – and around halfway from Place St. Denis it reaches its maximum of 26% at the infamous S-bend.

VIDEO CREDITS
Video & editing: Thomas Tonsberg Schlie (Lokal Digital)
Drone: Emma Laycock (Laycock Media)


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