Lucien Petit-Breton

Lucien Petit-Breton was the racing pseudonym of Lucien Georges Mazan, a French cyclist born on 18 October 1882 in Plessé, Brittany, and best remembered as the first rider to win the Tour de France twice. His family moved to Buenos Aires when he was six, and he began racing after winning a bicycle in a lottery at sixteen, adopting a pseudonym to keep his career from his father. He won the Argentine track championship, the Bol d'Or in 1904 and broke the world hour record in Paris in 1905. He won Paris-Tours in 1906 and the first Milan-San Remo in 1907, then took the Tour de France in 1907 and again in 1908 with the Peugeot team. His career was ended by the First World War, in which he served as a driver in the French army and died in December 1917 after a crash.