Lucien Buysse

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ridername = Lucien Buysse


fullname = Lucien Buysse
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dateofbirth = birth date|1892|09|11
dateofdeath = death date and age|1980|01|03|1892|09|11
country = BEL
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discipline = Road
role = Rider
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majorwins = 1926 Tour de France
updated = May 24, 2008.

Born in Wontergem, Buysse began racing professionally in 1914, when he entered the Tour de France but did not finish. He resumed his career after World War I, entering but abandoning the Tour again in 1919 but placing third in the Paris-Roubaix classic in 1920. In 1923 he completed the Tour de France and finished in eighth place. In the 1924 and 1925 Tours, he rode with the Italian Automoto team led by Ottavio Bottecchia, where he was perhaps the first domestique in the history of the Tour. He placed third in 1924 and second in 1925.

The 1926 Tour was the longest in its history (5,745 km), with 17 stages averaging 338 km. Buysse, racing with his two brothers Jules and Michel, took the lead on stage 10 by attacking during a furious storm on the Col d'Aspin in the Pyrenees, gaining almost an hour during the stage over his team leader Bottecchia. Bottecchia abandoned on the same stage and Buysse arrived in Paris as the champion. He won a total of five stages of the Tour during his career: one in 1923; two in 1925 and two in 1926.

Palmarès

;1913:Tour of Belgium for amateurs;1914:Brussels-Liège for amateurs;1922:Lier;1923:Six Days of Ghent (with Victor Standaert):Tour de France:::8th place overall classification::Winner stage 8;1924:Tour de France:::3rd place overall classification;1925:Tour de France:::2nd place overall classification::Winner stages 11 and 12;1926:Tour de France::: Winner overall classification::Winner stages 10 and 11;1927:Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen

External links

*cyclingwebsite|2874
* [http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/TDF/riders/us/1831.html Official Tour de France results for Lucien Buysse]