Edmond Poillot Explained

Edmond Poillot
Nationality:	French
Sport:	Boxing
Birth Date:	28 January 1888

Edmond^[1] Poillot, (28 January 1888  - 25 September 1910) was a French journalist, pioneer aviation pilot and amateur boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.^{[2] [3]}

Chief pilot at the Savary's aviation school in Chartres (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.^[4]

Notes and References

1. The 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.
2. Étienne Poillot Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417202753/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/po/etienne-poillot-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 4 November 2018.
3. Web site: Edmond Poillot . Olympedia . 18 March 2021.
4. News: . M. Poillot . . II . Nº40 . United Kingdom . . 1 October 1910 . 807 . 0015-3710 . 18 August 2020 .