{"id":12785,"date":"2025-10-03T07:35:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/social-media-star-breaks-world-record-cycling-up-eiffel-tower\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:00","slug":"social-media-star-breaks-world-record-cycling-up-eiffel-tower","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/social-media-star-breaks-world-record-cycling-up-eiffel-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media star breaks world record cycling up Eiffel Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He broke the previous record by almost seven minutes. In order to claim the title, Fontenoy&#8217;s feet were not allowed to touch the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not expect to take this little time,&#8221; Fontenoy said after the feat. The Eiffel Tower &#8220;is really a symbol, it is really the monument that I wanted to climb,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his project &#8220;The Climb&#8221;, Fontenoy cycled in 2021 to the top of the 140-metre high Trinity Tower, also in Paris, and this year he climbed Tallinn&#8217;s TV Tower in Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12786,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-12785","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Cyclist and social media sensation Aurelien Fontenoy became the fastest athlete ever to climb to the second floor of France's Eiffel Tower on an all-terrain bike, the monument's operator said on Friday||Cyclist and social media sensation Aurelien Fontenoy became the fastest athlete ever to climb to the second floor of France's Eiffel Tower on an all-terrain bike, the monument's operator said on Friday","published_date":null,"news_description":"Cyclist and social media sensation Aurelien Fontenoy became the fastest athlete ever to climb to the second floor of France's Eiffel Tower on an all-terrain bike, the monument's operator said on Friday||Cyclist and social media sensation Aurelien Fontenoy became the fastest athlete ever to climb to the second floor of France's Eiffel Tower on an all-terrain bike, the monument's operator said on Friday","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18219,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12785\/revisions\/18219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}