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Jean Bobet (22 February 1930 – 27 July 2022)Ancien coureur et frère de Louison, Jean Bobet est mort
was a French road bicycle racer. He was the younger brother of
Louison Bobet Louis "Louison" Bobet (; 12 March 1925 - 13 March 1983) was a French professional road racing cyclist. He was the first great French rider of the post-war period and the first rider to win the Tour de France in three successive years, from 1953 ...
. Less successful, he nevertheless won the world students' championship as an amateur and then, as a professional, Paris–Nice in 1955, Genoa–Nice in 1956 and the Circuit du Morbihan in 1953. He came third in
Milan–San Remo Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it is ...
in 1953. He rode from 1949 to 1959, including all three Grand Tours. He and his brother retired from racing after a car carrying them crashed outside Paris in the autumn of 1960. Louison went into business ventures and Jean became a journalist. He became head of sport at
Radio Luxembourg Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg. It is known in most non-English languages as RTL (for Radio Television Luxembourg). The English-language service of Radio Luxembourg began in 1933 as one of the earlies ...
, wrote for '' L'Équipe'' and then ''
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''. He made occasional contributions to ''Miroir du Cyclisme'' and still (2008) appears on television, notably in retrospective programmes. He was instrumental in forming a museum in his brother's memory in Saint-Méen-le-Grand. He wrote several books, including ''Louison Bobet, une vélobiographie'' (Éditions Gallimard, 1958), an account of life with his brother in ''Demain on roule'' (Editions de la Table Ronde, 2004), translated as ''Tomorrow We Ride'' (Mousehold Press, 2008), and a history of
Octave Lapize Octave Lapize (; 24 October 1887 – 14 July 1917) was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist. Most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 kilometres, h ...
, one of the first stars of the Tour de France: ''Lapize, celui-là était un 'as''' (Editions de la Table Ronde, 2003), translated as ''Lapize ... now there was an ace'' (Mousehold Press, 2010).


Teams

*1949–1951 Stella-Dunlop *1952 Stella-Huret *1953 Bottecchia and Stella-Wolber-Dunlop *1954 Stella-Wolber-Dunlop *1955 L. Bobet-BP-Hutchinson and Mercier-Hutchinson *1956 L. Bobet-BP-Hutchinson *1957 L. Bobet-BP-Hutchinson, Mercier-BP-Hutchinson and Velo Club Bustese *1958–1959 L. Bobet-BP-Hutchinson


Achievements

;1949 * World University Cycling Champion * World student team time-trial champion ;1950 * World University Cycling Champion ;1951 * 1st Tour de l'Orne * 1st Lannion–Rennes * 1st Circuit de la Vallée de Loire ;1952 * 1st Dinan * 1st Hautmont ;1953 * 1st Circuit de Morbihan * 1st Grand Prix d'Europe ;1955 * 1st Paris–Nice and one stage win * 1st Scaer ;1956 * 1st Genoa–Nice ;1959 * 1st Lodève


Tour de France

*1955 14th *1957 15th


Giro d'Italia

*1953 Did not finish *1957 25th *1958 Did not finish (11th stage)


Vuelta a España

*1956 Did not finish (16th stage)


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* 1930 births 2022 deaths French male cyclists Cycling journalists Cycling writers French sports journalists Sportspeople from Ille-et-Vilaine French male non-fiction writers Cyclists from Brittany {{France-cycling-bio-1930s-stub