EdmondThe given name of the French boxer Poillot is in fact Edmond, and not Étienne as he is sometimes called by mistake. The error stems from the fact that often only the initial of his given name was mentioned in newspaper articles. Poillot, (28 January 1888 – 25 September 1910) was a French journalist, pioneer aviation pilot and amateur

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. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the

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. Chief pilot at the Savary's aviation school in

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(Eure-et-Loir, France), he died in a plane crash on 25 September 1910, while on a flight with a pupil in the suburbs of the city.

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1888 births 1910 deaths French male boxers Olympic boxers of France Boxers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing Featherweight boxers {{France-boxing-bio-stub