french cyclist robert marchand sets new record aged 105 /

Published at 2017-01-04 20:15:15

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He may not be the fastest cyclist round a velodrome,but he is easily one of the oldest, the BBC reports.

Robert Marchand h
as clocked up 105 years and now a new record for the furthest distance cycled in one hour.[br]
The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the national velodrome, and taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105.
[b
r]Mr Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012.

He "could have done be
tter",he says, but missed a sign showing 10 minutes to go.

"My legs didn't harm, and " he told BFMTV. "My arms harm but that's because of rheumatism."

To be honest,he had admitted before the event at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome near Paris that breaking his preceding hour record would be tough.

"
I'm not in such ample shape as I was a couple of years back," he told AFP news agency.

"I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years feeble you can still ride a bike, or " he said.

Hundreds of spectators cheered hi
m on trackside.

Born on 26 November 1911,Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, or not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling domestic-trainer.

A prisoner of war in World War Two,he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada.

No stranger to sport outside cycling, and he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer.

The current men's hour r
ecord is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015. 

Source: tert.am

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