Hubert Jean Daniel Lefèbvre (28 November 1878 in
Paris – 26 September 1937 in
Labaroche
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) was a French
rugby union player who competed in the
1900 Summer Olympics
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. He was a member of the French rugby union team, which won the gold medal. Lefèbvre played forward.
Lefèbvre played club rugby with
Racing Club de France from 1895 to 1902 and was a member of the 1900 and 1902 French championship teams.
In the 1902 final, a 6–0 victory, he scored the final try just before the half.
Lefèbvre was educated at the
Lycée Charlemagne
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Constructed many centuries before it became a lycée, the building originally served as the home of the Order of the Jesuit ...
and
Centrale Graduate School
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* CentraleSupélec (formed by merger of École Centrale Paris and Supélec) established in 2015
* École centrale de Lille established in 1854
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in engineering. He served in
World War I, rising to the rank of captain.
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1878 births
1937 deaths
Rugby union players from Paris
French rugby union players
Rugby union players at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Olympic rugby union players of France
Olympic gold medalists for France
Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics
French military personnel of World War I
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