Lucien Buysse

Lucien Buysse was a Belgian cyclist and the winner of the 1926 Tour de France, born in Wontergem on 11 September 1892 and died on 3 January 1980. He began racing professionally in 1914 and rode the Tour de France for the Italian Automoto team in 1924 and 1925, where he may have been the first domestique in the race's history; he placed third in 1924 and second in 1925. The 1926 Tour was the longest in its history, 5,745 km over 17 stages, and he took the yellow jersey on stage 10 with an attack in a storm on the Col d'Aspin, racing alongside his brothers Jules and Michel. He won five Tour stages in all, one in 1923, two in 1925 and two in 1926, and he also placed in Six Days of Ghent track races.