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Sepp Kuss becomes the most successful Strava KOM hunter among professionals claiming 808 in just 2023 season
CyclingWednesday, 20 September 2023 at 01:00
Sepp Kuss was crowned as the champion of the 2023 Vuelta a España on Sunday evening, but he also claimed another kind of crown - 808 of them to be precise.
Over the course of his victorious three-week lap of Spain, the US rider racked up an enviable array of 'King of the Mountain' records on Strava, becoming the biggest KOM-bagger of the pro peloton in 2023.
According to Strava, Kuss has claimed a whopping 808 KOMs this year, which is more than any other pro athlete in 2023. It may well be that an amateur rider with a penchant for KOM-hunting has more in the bag.
KOMs are a popular feature of the social riding platform, Strava, in which real-world roads and trails (flats and descents as well as climbs) are broken down into segments and riders are automatically timed across them to form an all-time leaderboard. With anyone able to create segments, there are many millions in the world, some as notable as the full ascent of l’Alpe d’Huez, others as mundane as the 30 metres between the traffic lights and your local corner store.
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