CYCLIST

Louison Bobet

1925 - 1983

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Louis "Louison" Bobet (pronounced [lwi.zɔ̃ bɔ.be]; 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 to 1955. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louison Bobet has received more than 147,216 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Louison Bobet is the 33rd most popular cyclist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 2,321st most popular biography from France (up from 2,570th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Louison Bobet ranks 33 out of 1,613. Before him are Octave Lapize, Jan Janssen, Lucien Van Impe, Rik Van Steenbergen, Nicolas Frantz, and François Faber. After him are Patrick Sercu, Francisco Gabica, Ottavio Bottecchia, Odile Defraye, Louis Trousselier, and Rudi Altig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Louison Bobet ranks 132. Before him are Brian Aldiss, Manos Hatzidakis, Efim Geller, Luis Molowny, Toshio Iwatani, and Shigeko Higashikuni. After him are John Guillermin, Henning Larsen, Flannery O'Connor, Maurice Pialat, Pavel Belyayev, and Aldo Ciccolini. Among people deceased in 1983, Louison Bobet ranks 69. Before him are Sharof Rashidov, Erich Juskowiak, Shizo Kanakuri, László Budai, William Walton, and Arturo Umberto Illia. After him are Miguel Alemán Valdés, Carolyn Jones, Marcel Dalio, Josep Lluís Sert, Rebecca West, and Ralph Richardson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louison Bobet ranks 2,321 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Duparc (1848), Catherine Breillat (1948), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Henry Beaufort (1374), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), and Alain Connes (1947). After him are Jean de Chelles (1200), Margaret of Burgundy, Duchess of Bavaria (1374), Constance, Duchess of Brittany (1161), Theobald I, Count of Blois (910), André Téchiné (1943), and Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy (1571).

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Among CYCLISTS In France

Among cyclists born in France, Louison Bobet ranks 10. Before him are Lucien Petit-Breton (1882), Henri Cornet (1884), Roger Pingeon (1940), Laurent Fignon (1960), Octave Lapize (1887), and François Faber (1887). After him are Louis Trousselier (1881), Roger Walkowiak (1927), Antonin Magne (1904), Henri Pélissier (1889), André Leducq (1904), and Bernard Thévenet (1948).

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