PARIS, Oct 4 \u2014 Cyclist and social media sensation Aurelien Fontenoy became the fastest athlete ever to climb to the second floor of France\u2019s Eiffel Tower on an all-terrain bike, the monument\u2019s operator said yesterday.<\/p>\n
Fontenoy on Thursday climbed 686 steps of the monument to reach the second-floor platform, the last accessible by stairs, in 12 minutes and 30 seconds, the Societe d\u2019Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel said in a statement.<\/p>\n
He broke the previous record by almost seven minutes. In order to claim the title, Fontenoy\u2019s feet were not allowed to touch the ground.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not expect to take this little time,\u201d Fontenoy said after the feat. The Eiffel Tower \u201cis really a symbol, it is really the monument that I wanted to climb,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
As part of his project \u201cThe Climb\u201d, Fontenoy cycled in 2021 to the top of the 140m-high Trinity Tower, also in Paris, and this year he climbed Tallinn\u2019s TV Tower in Estonia. \u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS, Oct 4 \u2014 Cyclist and social media sensation Aurelien Fontenoy became the fastest athlete ever to climb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[119989,64,119976,63,784,119988,2592,85,119991,119990],"class_list":["post-188978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-all-terrain-bike","tag-au","tag-aurelien-fontenoy","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-eiffel-tower-climb","tag-france","tag-sports","tag-tallinn-tv-tower","tag-the-climb-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}