Lucien Petit-Breton

Lucien Petit-Breton

Personal information
Full name	Lucien Georges Mazan
Nickname	Lucien Petit-Breton
Born	(1882-10-18)18 October 1882 Plessé, France
Died	20 December 1917(1917-12-20) (aged 35) Troyes, France
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1905	JC Cycles
1906-1908	Peugeot
1909	Legnano
1910	Alcyon
1911	Fiat
1911	La Française
1912	Peugeot
1913-1914	Automata
1914	Atala
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) was a French racing cyclist (pseudonym: Lucien Petit-Breton, pronounced [ly.sjɛ̃ pə.ti.bʁə.tɔ̃]), 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.