Container Cup

The Container Cup is a TV program developed by Woestijnvis and broadcast by Belgian TV channel Vier 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 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.[1]

The seven events were 1500m running, monkey bars, golf, 1000m rowing, shooting, bench press, and 3km 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.[2]

The format was sold to US company 3Ball Productions.[3] It has also been sold to France, and other countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and the UK have shown interest.[4]

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