Robert Marchand completed the 22.547 km race in one hour, a unique achievement for racers over 105 years old.
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| French cyclist Robert Marchand attracted a lot of public attention when he appeared at the French national gymnasium in Montigny-les-Bretonneux with the aim of setting a new world record at the age of 105. |
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| Hundreds of people turned out to cheer on Robert Marchand, who holds the over-100 record for completing 26.927 km in 2012. |
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| Marchand prepares to depart. |
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| Born on November 26, 1911, the world's oldest cyclist maintains his fitness with a strict diet rich in fruits and vegetables. He eats little meat and rarely drinks coffee. |
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| Marchand maintains an hour-a-day cycling workout at home. He was a prisoner of war in World War II and has worked as a truck driver, a sugarcane farmer in Venezuela, and a logger in Canada. |
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| Before pursuing cycling, he was a member of the French national gymnastics team and later a boxer. |
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| Marchand completed the 22.547 km race in one hour, setting a world record. |
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| Marchand raised the bouquet as if to lift the Victory Cup. |
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| He received cheers from the large crowd at the arena. However, Marchand admitted that the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines arena, near Paris, where he set his previous record, was more difficult than this one. |
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| "My legs don't hurt. My arms do, but that's because of the rheumatism. I'm not as fit as I was a few years ago. I'm not here to be a champion. I'm here to show you can still ride a bike at 105," Marchand said. |
According to VNE
