The centenarian bicycle owner, who grew to become vegetarian a month in the past, pedaled 22.547 kilometers (14 miles) in 60 minutes on the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome outdoors Paris Wednesday.
His distance fell wanting the 26.927 kilometers (16.73 miles) he managed in 2014, however remains to be a brand new report within the 105-and-above class.
"I did not see the signal for the final 10 minutes, in any other case I may have gone sooner," Marchand instructed BFMTV.
Britain's Sir Bradley Wiggins holds the outright mile report with a distance of 54.526km (33.88 miles).
Huge coronary heart
Marchand, who was persuaded by docs to take up meat once more for the problem, is 1.50 meters tall and weighs simply 50 kilograms however makes up for his slight body with distinctive physiology.
"He's very small however his coronary heart may be very massive," Professor Veronique Billat, who's a physiologist, instructed CNN Sport.
"His V02 max oxygen consumption is identical as a person of half his age who does not do any sports activities," added Billat, referring to the measure of oxygen uptake.
"So he has an excellent oxygen consumption due to an distinctive coronary heart."
Marchand lives alone in his Parisian studio flat however is sustained by "optimism" in addition to "laughter" and "many buddies," in line with Billat, whose group has been learning the bicycle owner's efforts since he turned 100.
He was born in 1911 and was a eager bicycle owner till the age of 22 when his coach instructed him he wouldn't turn into a champion due to his measurement.
He undertook many energetic jobs throughout his lengthy life, together with as a firefighter, a gardener and a lumberjack in Canada, and solely took up biking once more on the age of 75.
"His life may be very easy," says Billat.
Secret to success
The 105-year-old begins every day with 10 minutes of calisthenic workouts and a biking session on his indoor bike earlier than breakfast of a banana and strawberries with yoghurt and a cup of inexperienced tea with sugar.
He reads the newspaper daily -- he's very all in favour of politics -- and devours books on sport and vitamin.
He goes to the market daily to purchase greens earlier than cooking his personal lunch. As soon as per week he'll enable himself a glass of purple wine.
4 occasions per week he additionally cycles open air for an hour with buddies. "That is the key, he is not alone," provides Billat.
One of many greatest challenges for the report try was selecting the optimum gear to cycle in.
The group settled on a gearing that might allow him to cycle at 65 revolutions per minute, delivering 5.94 meters per flip of the pedals. That equates to 23.166km in a single hour, barely greater than Marchand achieved in the long run.
Talking earlier than his try, he stated: "I am not right here to interrupt any report. I am doing it to show that at 105 years outdated you'll be able to nonetheless journey a motorbike."
As French biking followers would say to riders within the Tour de France -- "Chapeau!"
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