{"id":67083,"date":"2014-02-01T07:56:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T03:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=67083"},"modified":"2014-02-01T07:56:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T03:56:27","slug":"102-year-old-cyclist-sets-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=67083","title":{"rendered":"102-Year-Old Cyclist Sets World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/French-cyclist-Robert_Marchand_record.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-67082\" title=\"\u054c\u0578\u0562\u0565\u0580\u057f \u0544\u0561\u0580\u0577\u0561\u0576\" alt=\"French cyclist-Robert_Marchand_record\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/French-cyclist-Robert_Marchand_record.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/French-cyclist-Robert_Marchand_record.jpg 600w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/French-cyclist-Robert_Marchand_record-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/French-cyclist-Robert_Marchand_record-418x300.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Age hasn&#8217;t slowed French cyclist Robert Marchand.<\/p>\n<p>The 102-year-old broke his own world record in the over-100s category Friday, riding 26.927 kilometers (16.7 miles) in one hour, more than 2.5 kilometers better than his previous best time in the race against the clock two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The retired firefighter and logger also holds a record for the 100 kilometers, covering the distance in four hours, 17 minutes and 27 seconds in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Marchand received a standing ovation and was mobbed by dozens of photographers and cameramen at the finish line in France&#8217;s brand-new National Velodrome, a 74-million-euro ($100 million) complex that officially opened its doors Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age hasn&#8217;t slowed French cyclist Robert Marchand. The 102-year-old broke his own world record in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[6514,6513],"class_list":["post-67083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-robert-marchand","tag-world-record","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}