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The winner of the previous two editions , Lucien Mazan `` Petit-Breton '' , did not compete in the 1909 Tour de France .. Lucien Mazan. Lucien Petit-Breton. 1909 Tour de France. 1909 Tour de France. Petit-Breton expected his former team mate Francois Faber , who had become second in 1908 , to win the race .. Faber had transferred from the Peugeot team , that had dominated the 1908 edition , to the Alcyon team .. A new record of 150 cyclists started the race .. The previous Tours had been successful , and similar races were initiated in other countries -LRB- most notably the Tour of Belgium , which started in 1908 and the Giro d'Italia , which started in 1909 -RRB- .. Tour of Belgium. Tour of Belgium. Giro d'Italia. Giro d'Italia. The Tour de France was still the major race where the best cyclists came , and it was the first large-scale invasion of foreign stars .. In total , 19 Italians , 5 Belgians , 4 Swiss , 1 German and 1 Luxembourgian started the race .. Because cyclists could enter the race as sponsored cyclists , there were two classes of cyclists  : cyclists with sponsors and cyclists without sponsors .. There were seven different sponsors in the race -LRB- Nil-Supra , Alcyon , Biguet-Dunlop , Le Globe , Atala , Legnano and Felsina -RRB- , with three to six cyclists .. The majority of the cyclists , 112 in total , were not sponsored but were in the Isole class , the class for cyclists without a sponsor .