Jean Dotto

Personal information
Full name	Jean-Baptiste Dotto
Nickname	Le Vigneron de Cabasse
Date of birth	March 27, 1928(1928-03-27)
Date of death	February 20, 2000 (aged 71)
Country	France
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Professional team(s)1
1948-1950 1950 1951-1953 1953 1954 1954 1955 1956 1957-1959 1960-1962 1963	Independent (semi-professional) Urago France Sport Dunlop Magnat-Debon-Wolber Magnat-Debon Terrot-Hutchinson Vampire d'Alessandro St-Raphaël-Dunlop-Geminiani Liberia Hutchinson Liberia-Grammont Margnat-Paloma
Major wins
Dauphiné Libéré (1952, 1960) 1955 Vuelta a España
Infobox last updated on:
4 December 2008 1 Team names given are those prevailing at time of rider beginning association with that team.

Jean-Baptiste Dotto (born St-Nazaire, 27 March, 1928, died Ollioules, France, 20 February, 2000^[1]) was the first French racing cyclist to win the Vuelta a España. He rode the Tour de France 13 times, coming fourth in 1954.

Jean Dotto was born with Italian nationality. He became French in 1937.^[1] Dotto was a good climber. He became an independent, or semi-professional, in 1948 and won a race up Mont Ventoux^[2] that year and won Marseille-Toulon-Marseille and the climb of La Turbie, near Nice in 1950. He turned professional in 1951 for France-Sport-Dunlop and won five races, including three hill climbs, in his first season. He rode until 1963, winning 35 races^[2], including the Dauphiné-Libéré twice. He won stage 19 of the 1954 Tour de France and next year won the Vuelta by beating Julio Jimenez of Spain and Raphael Geminiani of France.

Of his era, he said: "We took amphetamine but not all the year. That allowed us to win and it wasn't very dangerous."^[3]

[edit] Major achievements

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Jean Dotto profile at the Cycling Website
• Official Tour de France results for Jean Dotto

v • d • e Vuelta a España winners 1935–36 Gustaaf Deloor • 1937–40 Spanish Civil War • 1941–42 Julián Berrendero • 1943–44 World War II • 1945 Delio Rodríguez • 1946 Dalmacio Langarica • 1947 Edward Van Dijck • 1948 Bernardo Ruiz • 1949 Race not held • 1950 Emilio Rodríguez • 1951–54 Race not held • 1955 Jean Dotto • 1956 Angelo Conterno • 1957 Jesús Loroño • 1958 Jean Stablinski • 1959 Antonio Suárez • 1960 Frans De Mulder • 1961 Angelino Soler • 1962 Rudi Altig • 1963 Jacques Anquetil • 1964 Raymond Poulidor • 1965 Rolf Wolfshohl • 1966 Francisco Gabica • 1967 Jan Janssen • 1968 Felice Gimondi • 1969 Roger Pingeon • 1970 Luis Ocaña • 1971 Ferdinand Bracke • 1972 José Manuel Fuente • 1973 Eddy Merckx • 1974 José Manuel Fuente • 1975 Agustín Tamames • 1976 José Pesarrodona • 1977 Freddy Maertens • 1978 Bernard Hinault • 1979 Joop Zoetemelk • 1980 Faustino Ruperez • 1981 Giovanni Battaglin • 1982 Marino Lejarreta • 1983 Bernard Hinault • 1984 Éric Caritoux • 1985 Pedro Delgado • 1986 Álvaro Pino • 1987 Luis Herrera • 1988 Seán Kelly • 1989 Pedro Delgado • 1990 Marco Giovannetti • 1991 Melcior Mauri • 1992–93–94 Tony Rominger • 1995 Laurent Jalabert • 1996–97 Alex Zülle • 1998 Abraham Olano • 1999 Jan Ullrich • 2000 Roberto Heras • 2001 Ángel Casero • 2002 Aitor González • 2003–04 Roberto Heras • 2005 Denis Menchov • 2006 Alexander Vinokourov • 2007 Denis Menchov • 2008 Alberto Contador 2009 Alejandro Valverde

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