The Container Cup

Name: The Container Cup
Cast: Wesley Sonck, Pedro Elias, Carl Dircksens

TV series
2020–present
4 seasons
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30 Belgian top athletes and 10 famous Flemings compete against each other every day in a heroic and unique heptathlon. And they all do this in a metal container of 12 by 2.2 meters, which is driven to them. And they only get one assignment: blast as fast and as hard as possible on every part to set the best time and score over the entire course.

About the show

The Container Cup is a TV program developed by Woestijnvis and broadcast by Belgian TV channel Vier. The first season aired between 26 April 2020 and 28 May 2020. In the format, 32 professional sporters had to finish a series of seven sporting events, organised in a container, in the least amount of time. The eventual winner of the first season was Mathieu van der Poel, with Hanne Claes the fastest woman. Some so-called "Famous Flemings" (former sportspeople, TV presenters,...) also participated.

The concept was created and filmed in less than two months, when all official sporting events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The seven events were 1500m running, monkey bars, golf, 1000m rowing, shooting, bench press, and 3 km cycling. The time needed for the running, rowing and cycling was added together. The other events resulted in time reduced: one second for each monkey bar, for every three metre on the virtual golf course (best of three attempts), and for every two kilograms on the bench press (best of three attempts), and ten seconds per target hit on the shooting range (for a maximum of five). For these four events there was a time limit as well.

The format was sold to US company 3Ball Productions. It has also been sold to France, and other countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and the UK have shown interest.

In December 2020 it won the Ha! van Humo as best Flemish television show of the year.

A second season was broadcast in 2021 and won by rower Ward Lemmelijn. A third season, broadcast in 2022, was won by canoeist Artuur Peters.

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