Léon Hourlier

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Léon Hourlier (16 September 1885 – 16 October 1915) was a French track cyclist and sprinter. Born in Reims, he won the French national championship in 1909, 1911 and 1914, and the Grand Prix de Paris in 1914. He also competed in the sprint at the 1911 World Championships in Rome. Hourlier’s racing career ended when World War I began; he and his brother-in-law Léon Comès joined the French army. They died together in a military air crash at Saint-Étienne-au-Temple in the Champagne region of France in 1915, aged 30.