Talk:King of the Mountains

"KOM climb"??

During a bike race on TV, the announcers kept using the term "KOM climb". I haven't been able to find a definition of this term although it appears on several websites. Can someone define this?

68.110.238.175 (talk) 03:43, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


 * KOM = "King of the Mountains" ie, the climbs carry points which count towards the race's overall climbers classification. Paul W (talk) 08:07, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Who actually uses the phrase?
Which races, if any, actually use the King of the Mountain title, of anything that directly translates thus? None of the three Grand tours use it in their native language. Should this article not be at Mountains classification (cycle races) or something similar? Kevin McE (talk) 10:53, 30 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Would Official names not apply here? Mountains classification returns under 500 000 google hits, compared to 17.9 million for king of the mountains. A current news search shows Matthew Lloyd described as winner of the 'king of the mountains' classification at the Giro in the vast majority of news sources - though I'd agree that this isn't universal (the telegraph uses 'mountains classification', for example). Mountains classification does redirect here as it is. --Pretty Green (talk) 12:17, 30 May 2010 (UTC)