Louison Bobet (March 12th 1925 Saint-Méen-the-Large with - March 13rd 1983 with Biarritz) is a cyclist French.

Louison Bobet started in the working life as baker's boy in family bakery, carrying out frequent bicycle deliveries.

He will be professional cyclist of 1947 with 1961, recording 122 victories lasting this period. In addition to the shirt of the team of France which it carried to the Tour de France or the championships of the world, he was member of several teams: “Stella” of 1948 with 1955, “Draper” of 1955 with 1960 then “Ignis” in 1961. Its professional path stopped the August 10th 1962 then it started a reconversion by imagining a new concept of health-leisure and by creating the first establishment of thalassotherapy, in Quiberon followed by a second center to Biarritz.

His/her brother Jean Bobet, five years his junior, gained Paris-Nice in 1955, Genoa-Nice in 1956, the Circuit of Morbihan in 1953, and was 3rd of Milan-San Remo in 1953).

Quotation

I remember to have obtained, with the Park Princes, an autograph of Louison Bobet , Georges Perec, I remember, 27.

Prize list

• Champion of the French champions the Team: 1953,1954
• Desgrange-Colombo Challenge: 1951 (2nd: 1953,1955; 3rd: 1954)
• Sédis Challenge: 1951,1952,1953,1954,1955
• Nice Edmond Trophy (exploit cyclist of the year): 1954
• Legion of honor the shortly after its sporting career

• Tour de France: 1953, 1954, 1955 (3rd: 1950)

• Championship of the world on road: 1954 (2nd: 1957,1958)
• Championships of France of cycling on road: 1950, 1951 (2nd: 1955; 3rd: 1953,1956)
• Championship of France amateur: 1946
• Paris-Roubaix: 1956 (2nd: 1951; 3rd: 1955)
• Bordeaux-Paris: 1959 (2nd: 1961; 4th: 1960)
• Milan-San Remo: 1951
• Turn of Lombardy: 1951
• Turn of Flandres: 1955
• Paris-Nice: 1952 (Paris-Dimension of Azure)
• Critérium of Dauphine released: 1955
• Grand Prix of the Nations: 1952
• Circuit of the Loops of the Seine: 1947 (2nd: 1956)
• Critérium of the Aces: 1949, 1950, 1953, 1954 (2nd: 1952; 3rd: 1957,1959)
• National Critérium: 1951, 1952 (2nd: 1957)
• Genoa-Nice: 1957
• Rome-Naples-Rome: 1959, 1960 (behind motor bike: Grand Prix auto-cycle rider of Rome) (3rd: 1950)
• Rome-Palermo: 1960
• Turn of Luxembourg: 1955
• Turn of the West: 1949
• Turn of Finistere: 1947
• Circuit of Mont Blanc: 1946,1956
• Circuit of the Alder: 1949,1953 (2nd: 1959; 3rd: 1958)
• Circuit of Trégor: 1955
• Circuit of Large Combe: 1955
• Circuit of the Ramparts of Boulogne: 1960
• Bowl of Gold of Monédières: 1954 (2nd: 1957)
• Wheel of Gold of Daumesnil: 1955,1959 (2nd: 1954,1957,1958)
• Grand Prix of the Team (against-the-watch): 1948 (with Dupuy and Mahé)
• Grand Prix of the Echo of Algiers: 1950 (2nd: 1954)
• Grand Prix of Locle: 1951
• Grand Prix of Espéraza: 1954
• Grand Prix of Saint-Raphaël: 1955
• Grand Prix of Nice: 1961
• 12 victories of stages over the Tour de France - 34 days in climbing yellow
• 1 time better over the Tour de France: 1950
• 2 victories of stages over the climbing Turn of Italy
• 1 time better over the Turn of Italy: 1957

• 2nd of the Turn of Italy: 1957

• 2nd of Paris-Turns: 1954,1957 (3rd: 1956)
• 2nd of the Midday-Free : 1952
• 2nd of Paris-Camembert cheese: 1956
• 2nd of the Trophy Baracchi: 1954 (with Jacques Anquetil) (5th in 1959 with Fausto Coppi)
• 2nd of Marseilles-Nice: 1956
• 2nd of the Grand Prix of the Echo of Oran: 1950 (3rd: 1951,1955)
• 2nd of Grand Prix of the Allied ones: 1954
• 2nd of the Grand Prix of Europe: 1954
• 2nd of the Grand Prix of Monaco: 1957
• 2nd of the Circuit of Indre: 1951
• 2nd of the Gold Wheel of Daumesnil: 1954
• 2nd of the Omnium of the truck drivers to the Park of the Princes: 1954
• 2nd of the Trophy Constant Ockers: 1957
• 2nd of the Six-Jours of Paris: 1957

Results on the Tour de France

• Tour de France 1947: Abandonment (9th stage)
• Tour de France 1948: 4th of the general classification and victorious of two stages
• Tour de France 1949: Abandonment (10th stage)
• Tour de France 1950: 3rd of general classification, victorious of a stage and better climbing
• Tour de France 1951: 20th of the general classification and victorious of a stage
• Tour de France 1953: Winner of general classification and two stages
• Tour de France 1954: Winner of general classification and three stages
• Tour de France 1955: Winner of general classification and three stages
• Tour de France 1958: 7th of general classification
• Tour de France 1959: Abandonment (18th stage)

Results on the Lathe of Italy

• Turn of Italy 1951: 7th of the general classification and victorious of a stage
• Turn of Italy 1953: Abandonment
• Turn of Italy 1957: 2nd of general classification, victorious of a stage and better climbing
• Turn of Italy 1958: 4th of general classification