Lucien Petit-Breton

Lucien Petit-Breton
Personal information
Full nameLucien Georges Mazan
NicknameLucien Petit-Breton
Born(1882-10-18)18 October 1882
Plessé, France
Died20 December 1917(1917-12-20) (aged 35)
Troyes, France
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1905JC Cycles
1906-1908Peugeot
1909Legnano
1910Alcyon
1911Fiat
1911La Française
1912Peugeot
1913-1914Automata
1914Atala
Major wins
Road

Grand Tours

Tour de France
General classification (1907, 1908)
7 individual stages (1907, 1908)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (1911)

Stage races

Tour of Belgium (1908)

One-day races and Classics

Milan–San Remo (1907)
Paris–Tours (1906)
Paris–Brussels (1908)
Other
Hour record 41.110 km (24 August 1905)

Lucien Georges Mazan (18 October 1882 – 20 December 1917), known by the pseudonym Lucien Petit-Breton (French pronunciation: [lysjɛ̃ p(ə)ti bʁətɔ̃]), was a French racing cyclist best known as the first two-time winner of the Tour de France.

He was born in Plessé, Loire-Atlantique, a part of Brittany, now part of Pays de la Loire. When he was six he moved with his parents to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he took the nationality. His cycling career started when he won a bike in a lottery at the age of sixteen. As his father wanted him to do a 'real' job, he adapted the nickname Lucien Breton for races, to deceive his father. Later he changed it to Petit-Breton, because there already was another cyclist called Lucien Breton.