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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Lucien Buysse |
| Born | (1892-09-11)11 September 1892 Deinze, Belgium |
| Died | 3 January 1980(1980-01-03) (aged 87) Deinze, Belgium |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Major wins | |
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Lucien Buysse (French:[lysjɛ̃bɥis],Flemish:[lyˈɕɛ̃ːˈbœysə]; 11 September 1892 – 3 January 1980) was aBelgian cyclist and a champion of theTour de France.[1]
Born inWontergem, Buysse began racing professionally in 1914, when he entered the Tour de France but did not finish. He resumed his career afterWorld War I, entering but abandoning the Tour again in 1919 but placing third in theParis–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 ItalianAutomoto team led byOttavio Bottecchia, where he was perhaps the firstdomestique in the history of the Tour. He placed third in 1924 and second in 1925.[2]
The 1926 Tour was the longest in its history (5,745 km), with 17 stages averaging 338 km. Buysse, racing with his two brothersJules and Michel, took theyellow jersey from Gustave Van Slembrouck on stage 10 by attacking during a furious storm on theCol d'Aspin in thePyrenees. He gained almost an hour during the stage over his team leader Bottecchia who then abandoned. Buysse arrived in Paris as the champion despite suffering the loss of his daughter during the race.[3]
In 1926, Buysse forced the Tour de France organiserHenri Desgrange to create a new rule when he eliminated the entire field by finishing so far ahead that everyone else was outside the limit. Desgrange extended the day's limit to 40 per cent of the winner's time and ruled that nobody in the first 10 could be eliminated.
Buysse won a total of five stages of the Tour during his career: one in 1923; two in 1925 and two in 1926.
Winner overall classification| 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giro d'Italia | DNE | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | DNE | DNE | 4 | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE |
| Stages won | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Tour de France | DNF-10 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | DNF-2 | DNE | DNE | DNE | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | DNE | DNE | DNF-9 | DNF-16 |
| Stages won | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Vuelta a España | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Stages won |
| 1 | Winner |
| 2–3 | Top three-finish |
| 4–10 | Top ten-finish |
| 11– | Other finish |
| DNE | Did not enter |
| DNF-x | Did not finish (retired on stage x) |
| DNS-x | Did not start (not started on stage x) |
| HD-x | Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x) |
| DSQ | Disqualified |
| N/A | Race/classification not held |
| NR | Not ranked in this classification |
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
