title: José Samyn
text: # José Samyn
  
  José Samyn (11 May 1946 – 28 August 1969) was a French professional road bicycle racer who died during a race in Zingem, Belgium.
  
  Samyn was born in Quiévrain, Belgium to a Belgian mother and French father, he took French nationality in 1964 . As an amateur, he won the 1965 French Military Cycling Championship. In 1967, he won a stage of the Tour de France. The following year, however, a dope test carried out during the Tour proved positive. Samyn was expelled from the race, suspended for one month and fined.
  
  He was the first winner of the GP Fayt-le-Franc, and after his death at Zingem the race was renamed Le Samyn (or Memorial Samyn) in his honor.
  
  ## Major results
  
  ### 1967
  
      Grand Prix de Denain
      Solesmes
      Tour de France:
         Winner stage 11
  
  ### 1968
  
      Circuit du Port de Dunkerque
      GP Fayt-le-Franc
      Wingene
  
  ### 1969
  
      Tour de Picardie
  