The world’s oldest Olympic champion, cyclist Charles Coste, died at the age of 101.

An Olympic champion as a part of the team pursuit cycling event back in London Olympics 1948, he carried the Olympic torch as the penultimate torchbearer at the opening ceremony of the last year’s Paris Olympics.

As per Olympics.com, Coste died on Thursday, October 31. Coste was alongside Serge Blusson, Fernand Decanali, and Pierre Adam when France won the Olympic gold in men’s team pursuit event in 1948.

He had been the oldest living Olympic champion, since Hungary gymnast Agnes Keleti died on January 2025.

Coste was born on February 8, 1924 in Ollioules, in the Var region and quickly found a passion in sport and cycling. He became the French national pursuit champion in 1947 and won the Olympic gold a

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