Jean Bobet

Jean Bobet
Personal information
Full name Jean Bobet
Born (1930-02-22) 22 February 1930
Saint-Méen-le-Grand, France
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Major wins
Paris–Nice (1955)
Infobox last updated on
30 December 2007

Jean Bobet (born 22 February 1930 in Saint-Méen-le-Grand) is a French former road bicycle racer. He is the younger brother of Louison Bobet. Less talented, he did nevertheless win 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 in 1953. He rode from 1949 to 1959, including all three major Tours.

He and his brother retired from racing after a car carrying him and his brother 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, wrote for L'Équipe and then Le Monde. He made occasional contributions to Miroir du Cyclisme and still 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 has written several books, including "Louison Bobet, une vélobiographie" (Editions 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 one of the first stars of the Tour de France: "Lapize, celui-là était un 'as'" (Editions de La Table Ronde, 2003).

Teams

Palmarès

1949
1950
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
1956
  • 1st Genova-Nice
1959
  • 1st Lodève

Tour de France

Giro d'Italia

Vuelta a España

External links

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