US EditionFarewell to a Cycling Legend: Remembering Charles Coste | Sports-Games
- On Nov 2, French sports minister Marina Ferrari announced ex-track cyclist Charles Coste died on October 30 at age 101.
- He won a French national title in 1947 and then Olympic team pursuit gold at the 1948 London Olympics, helping France beat the British team in the semi-final and Italian team in the final.
- Since Agnes Keleti's January death at age 103, Charles Coste, born Feb 8, 1924, had been the oldest living Olympic champion and leaves a huge sporting heritage at 101 years old.
- Passing the flame, Charles Coste was one of the Paris Olympics 2024 opening ceremony torchbearers and handed the Olympic flame to French former sprinter Marie-Jose Perec and French judoka Teddy Riner.
- After World War II, Charles Coste resumed cycling and won the 1949 Grand Prix des Nations, beating Fausto Coppi and highlighting his postwar success.
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World's oldest living Olympic gold medalist Charles Coste dies at 101
French cyclist Charles Coste, who had been the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medalist, died aged 101, French media reported on Sunday, November 2. Coste, who won Olympic gold in track cycling’s team pursuit alongside Pierre Adam, Serge Blusson, and Fernand Decanali in the 1948 London Games, passed away on Thursday, October 30. He had been the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medalist following the death of Hungarian artistic gymnast Agnes…
Charles Coste, the dean of the Olympic champions, died on Thursday, October 30, 2025, at the age of 101. On social media, Teddy Riner, who had shared a moment out of time with him at the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, paid him a fine tribute.
Former French cyclist Charles Coste, the oldest Olympic champion, died at the age of 101, announced on social network X the French Minister of Sports, Marina Ferrari. “With great sadness I have heard the news of the death of Charles, Olympic monarch in London in 1948 and who was re-released from the flame of the Paris Games 2024,” Ferrari posted on his account.
At the 1948 Summer Games, he and his teammates cycled away. Now Frenchman Charles Coste died at the age of 101. Last year, he had already opened the games in Paris.
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hbl.fiFrench cyclist Charles Coste won Olympic gold in the 1948 Summer Games in London. Now the world's oldest Olympic winner has passed away, at the age of 101.
The French cyclist Charles Coste, who was the oldest Olympic champion in his life, died at the age of 101, announced the French press.
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