Hippolyte Aucouturier

Hippolyte Aucouturier was a French professional road bicycle racer, born on 17 October 1876 and died on 22 April 1944, who raced as a professional between 1900 and 1908. He won two stages of the first Tour de France in 1903 after abandoning the opening stage, and in 1905 he won three stages and finished second overall. He also won Paris-Roubaix twice, in 1903 and 1904, and his elder brother Francois was also a racing cyclist. The Tour organiser Henri Desgrange called him Le Terrible in the newspaper L'Auto, and the article describes him as an outspoken man. He was one of four leading riders disqualified from the 1904 Tour de France, a race the article calls chaotic.