# Lucien Buysse

Lucien Buysse (French:, Flemish:; 11 September 1892 – 3 January 1980) was a Belgian cyclist and a champion of the Tour de France.

## Career

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 yellow jersey from Gustave Van Slembrouck on stage 10 by attacking during a furious storm on the Col d'Aspin in the Pyrenees. 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.
In 1926, Buysse forced the Tour de France organiser Henri 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.

## Career achievements
### Major results
#### 1912

    8th Scheldeprijs

#### 1913

    1st Tour of Belgium for amateurs
    8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

#### 1914

    1st Brussels-Liège for amateurs
    6th place overall classification Tour of Belgium

#### 1919

    3rd Grand Prix de l'Armistice (fr)
    3rd Gran Fondo
    10th Milan–San Remo
    8th Scheldeprijs
    10th Belgian National Road Race Championships, Road race

#### 1920

    2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    3rd Paris–Roubaix
    6th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

#### 1921

    Winner Stage 5 Tour of Belgium
    3rd Arlon–Ostend
    4th Overall Giro d'Italia

#### 1922

    1st Lier
    5th Tour of Flanders
    7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    7th Belgian National Road Race Championships, Road race

#### 1923

    Tour de France
       8th place overall classification
       Winner stage 8
    1st Critérium of Amsterdam
    4th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

#### 1924

    Tour de France:
       3rd place overall classification

#### 1925

    Tour de France:
       2nd place overall classification
       Winner stages 11 and 12
    9th Paris–Tours

#### 1926

    Tour de France:
       Winner overall classification
       Winner stages 10 and 11
    3rd Bordeaux–Paris
    9th Paris–Brussels

#### 1927

    1st Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen
    Tour of the Basque Country
       3rd place overall classification
       Winner stage 4
    3rd Critérium du Midi
    5th Bordeaux–Paris

#### 1928

    2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    4th Tour of Flanders

#### 1929

    8th Paris–Brussels

### Track cycling
#### 1922

    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Henri Van Lerberghe)

#### 1923

    1st Six Days of Ghent (with Victor Standaert)

#### 1924

    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Jules Van Hevel)

#### 1925

    3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Emile Thollembeek)

### Grand Tour results timeline

| | 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 | — | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 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 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 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 | 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 |
Legend :
| 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 | Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x) |
| DSQ | Disqualified |
| N/A | Race/classification not held |
| NR | Not ranked in this classification |