Gabriel Poulain

Gabriel Poulain (14 February 1884 – 9 January 1953) was a French champion cyclist.

He also won the Grand Prix de l'UVF in 1906.

He made several attempts to achieve human-powered flight.

In July 1921, he won a prize of 10,000 francs awarded by Peugeot for a flight of ten metres at a height of one metre, using a bicycle with two wing planes in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris.

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