Léon Hourlier
Léon Victor Hourlier (born September 16, 1885 in Reims , † October 16, 1915 in Saint-Étienne-au-Temple ) was a French cyclist .
Léon Hourlier started cycling in 1904, but it wasn't until 1907 that he appeared in major races and internationally. In 1908 he was the first French sprint champion . 1911 was his most successful year: he came third at the Grand Prix de l'UVF and second at the Grand Prix de Paris - both of which were renowned track races at the time -, again French champion in sprint and vice world champion in Copenhagen . In 1912 and 1914, Hourlier won the Paris Grand Prix, establishing himself as one of the strongest sprinters of his time. This is also proven by the numbers of his victories in Grand Prix tournaments; He achieved 7 victories in 1908, 13 victories in 1909, 5 victories in 1911, 15 victories in 1911, 12 victories in 1912, 8 victories in 1913 and 5 victories in 1914. These included all the important sprint prizes from Bordeaux to Tours. In Germany he won the 1914 Berlin Grand Prix.
In 1914, Léon Hourlier won the six-day race in Paris with his brother-in-law Léon Comès , who was also an excellent sprinter. A few months later, the two were drafted into the First World War as soldiers . They crashed together with an airplane in Champagne during the war and both died of their injuries within 24 hours.
15 years later, the two sons of Hourlier and Comès tried to build on the successes of their fathers, but without success.
literature
- Wheel world. Sports album. A cycling yearbook. 8th year, 1909, ZDB -ID 749618-7 , p. 34 f.
- Roger de Maertelaere: De Mannen van de night. 100 years of zesdaagsen. Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2000, ISBN 90-74128-67-X , p. 216.
Web links
- Léon Hourlier in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leon Hourlier. In: Memoire-du-cyclisme. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Hervé Paturle, Guillaume Rebière: Un siècle de cyclisme . Calmann- Lévy, Paris 1997, p. 70 (French).
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 | Hourlier, Leon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hourlier, Léon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reims |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1915 |
| Place of death | Saint-Etienne-au-Temple |