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French cyclist (1930–2022)

Jean Bobet

Bobet (center) in 1956
Personal information
Full name Jean Bobet
Born (1930-02-22)22 February 1930Saint-Méen-le-Grand, France
Died 27 July 2022(2022-07-27) (aged 92)Lorient, France
Team information
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Major wins
Stage races Paris–Nice (1955)

Jean Bobet (22 February 1930 – 27 July 2022)[1] was a French road bicycle racer. He was the younger brother of Louison Bobet. 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 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, wrote for L'Équipe and then Le Monde. 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, 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).

  1. ^ Ancien coureur et frère de Louison, Jean Bobet est mort (in French)