Robert
Marchand, a 105-year-old French cyclist , has beaten his own hour record on the
opened track, according to local report.
Marchand rode
22.547 kilometers at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome outside Paris,
setting a record in the senior hour endurance test.
“It’s okay. I
had no pain in the legs but in my arms because I have rheumatism,” he told
BFMTV news channel.
“I have not
seen the label of the last ten minutes, otherwise I would have gone little
faster,” he added.
Marchand was a
firefighter in Paris in the 1930s. After World War II he moved to Venezuela and
then in the 1950s to Canada, where he had a job as a lumberjack. He returned to
France in 1960 and worked as a gardener and wine dealer until 1987.
Aged 35 he
finished seventh in the Grand Prix des Nations in 1946.
He returned to
cycling in 1978 and has continued
training after his 100th birthday.
In February
2012, he set a world record in one-hour track cycling in the over-100 age group
at 24.250 km. He improved this record to 26.927 km in January 2014.
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