Lucien Petit-Breton

Lucien Georges Mazan (18 October 1882 - 20 December 1917), who raced as Lucien Petit-Breton, was a French cyclist and the first man to win the Tour de France twice, in 1907 and 1908. Born in Plessé in Loire-Atlantique, he moved with his parents to Buenos Aires at six and took Argentine nationality; he won a bicycle in a lottery at sixteen and raced as "Lucien Breton" to hide the sport from his father, changing the name because another rider was already called Lucien Breton. After an Argentine track title he was drafted into the French army in 1902, won the Bol d'Or in 1904, set a world hour record of 41.110 km at the Buffalo track in Paris in 1905, and finished fifth in the Tour that year and fourth in 1906. He won Paris-Tours in 1906 and the first Milan-San Remo in 1907 before his Tour victory. He was killed in the First World War.