Gabriel Poulain
Gabriel Poulain (born February 14, 1884 in St. Helier , Jersey, † January 9, 1953 in Nice ) was a French cyclist .
Gabriel Poulain's family owned a bicycle and automobile factory in St. Nazaire . Poulain first trained as a mechanic before he became a cyclist in 1902 and also promoted the Poulain brand as a professional.
In 1905 Poulain became world champion aviator on the track and took second place in 1906 and 1908. Otherwise he mostly only started in France.
Poulain was also active as a pilot and in aircraft construction. In 1910 he passed the German pilot's exam as 14th. In 1911 he took part in the long-distance flight "Gotha-Weimar-Erfurt-Gotha". He also tried his hand as a tinkerer and inventor. On July 9, 1921, he won a prize awarded by Peugeot for 10,000 francs by flying more than ten meters and higher than one meter in a self-made, human-powered flying machine in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris . The device consisted of a bicycle with two wings.
In 1924, at the age of 40, Poulain was still French champion, the following year it was enough for second place. In 1927, at the age of 43, he officially retired from cycling.
Trivia
Poulain was on friendly terms with the German aviator Henry Mayer. This friendship later turned into a bitter rivalry, which often culminated in fierce verbal battles and insults. In 1909, on the occasion of another dispute, Mayer challenged Poulain to a match with a personal stake of 1,600 gold marks. Poulain agreed. At first there was no cycling track that wanted to host the duel. After all, the Paris-Vincennes railway could be won over. Poulain won the first run, Mayer the second. In the final run, the competitors practiced several long standing attempts , over a total of 207 minutes. The race stewards set deadlines for both of them to finish the race several times. Shortly before the end of the last deadline, after well over three hours of racing, Poulain offered to get off the train and finish the race without a winner. Mayer agreed, the feud was over.
Individual evidence
- ↑ frontflieger.de
- ↑ luftfahrt-erfurt.de
- ^ New York Times v. July 10, 1921
- ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 8/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 14 .
literature
- Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume. Short biographies. Deutscher Schriftenverlag, Berlin 1937.
- Wheel world. Sports album. A cycling yearbook. 3rd year, 1904, ZDB -ID 749618-7 .
Web links
- Gabriel Poulain in the database of Radsportseiten.net
- Gabriel Poulain on cycling4fans.de
1895 Robert Protin | 1896 Paul Bourillon | 1897 Willy Arend | 1898 George A. Banker | 1899 Major Taylor | 1900 Edmond Jacquelin | 1901, 1902, 1903, 1906, 1908, 1911 Thorvald Ellegaard | 1904 Iver Lawson | 1905 Gabriel Poulain | 1907, 1910 Émile Friol | 1909 Victor Dupré | 1912 Frank Kramer | 1913 Walter Rütt | 1914–1919 not held | 1920 Robert Spears | 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926 Piet Moeskops | 1925 Ernst Kaufmann | 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 Lucien Michard | 1931 Willy Falck Hansen | 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1947 Jef Scherens | 1938, 1948, 1953 Arie van Vliet | 1939–1945 final or World Cup not held | 1946, 1957 Jan Derksen | 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954 Reg Harris | 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964 Antonio Maspes | 1958 Michel Rousseau | 1963 Sante Gaiardoni | 1965, 1966, 1968 Giuseppe Beghetto | 1967, 1969 Patrick Sercu | 1970 Gordon Johnson | 1971 Leijn Loevesijn | 1972, 1973 Robert Van Lancker | 1974 Peder Pedersen | 1975, 1976 John Nicholson | 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 Kōichi Nakano | 1987 Nobuyuki Tawara | 1988 Stephen Pate | 1989 Claudio Golinelli | 1990, 1992 Michael Huebner | 1993 Gary Neiwand | 1994 Marty Nothstein | 1995 Darryn Hill | 1996, 1997, 1998 Florian Rousseau | 1999, 2003 Laurent Gané | 2000 Jan van Eijden | 2001 Arnaud Tournant | 2002 Sean Eadie | 2004, 2006, 2007 Theo Bos | 2005 René Wolff | 2008 Chris Hoy | 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015 Grégory Baugé | 2011, 2016 Jason Kenny | 2013 Stefan Bötticher | 2014 François Pervis | 2017 Denis Dmitriev | 2018 Matthew Glaetzer | 2019, 2020 Harrie Lavreysen
1881, 1882 Frédéric de Civry | 1883–1885, 1887, 1891, 1893 Paul Médinger | 1886 Charles Terront | 1888 Paul Chereau | 1890 Louis Cottereau | 1892, 1893 Georges Cassignard | 1894 Maurice Farman | 1895, 1897, 1899 Paul Bourillon | 1896, 1900, 1902 Edmond Jacquelin | 1898 Ludovic Morin | 1901 Charles Jué | 1903 Victor Thuau | 1904, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1913, 1914 Émile Friol | 1905, 1922, 1924 Gabriel Poulain | 1908, 1911, 1914 Léon Hourlier | 1909 Victor Dupré | 1912 André Perchicot | 1920 Marcel Dupuy | 1923 Maurice Schilles | 1925–1930, 1933–1935 Lucien Michard | 1931 Lucien Faucheux | 1932, 1936, 1938, 1940–1943, 1945, 1946, 1949 Louis Gérardin | 1937 Louis Chaillot | 1939 Guy Renaudin | 1944, 1947, 1948, 1951–1952 Georges Senfftleben | 1953–1955 Jacques Bellenger | 1956–1958, 1963–1965 Roger Gaignard | 1959–1962, 1967 Michel Rousseau | 1968 André Gruchet | 1969 Jack Mourioux | 1970 Cyrille Guimard | 1976, 1977 Serge Aubey | 1978 Yves Daniel | 1980 Daniel Morelon | 1981 Francis Castaing | 1982, 1985 Yavé Cahard | 1984 Philippe Vernet | 1986–1988 Patrick Da Rocha | 1992, 1994 Frédéric Magné | 1993 Fabrice Colas | 1995–1998, 2000 Florian Rousseau | 1999, 2001–2004 Laurent Gané | 2005 Arnaud Tournant | 2006, 2008, 2010 Kévin Sireau | 2007, 2009 Grégory Baugé | 2012, 2013, 2015 François Pervis | 2014, 2016 Quentin Lafargue | 2017, 2018 Sébastien Vigier | 2019 Rayan Helal
The sprint was not consistently held at French rail championships.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poulain, Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Helier , Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1953 |
| Place of death | Nice , France |