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{{Short description|French cyclist (1921–1980)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}
{{Infobox cyclist
| name          = Jean Robic
| image         = Jean Robic 1947.jpg
| image_size    = 
| caption       = Robic at the [[1947 Tour de France]]
| full_name     = Jean Robic
| nickname      = ''Biquet'' (Kid goat)<br>''Tête de cuir'' (Leather-head)<br>''Le farfadet de la lande Bretonne''<ref group="Note">Robic was nicknamed ''Le farfadet de la lande Bretonne'' ''(the hobgoblin of the Brittany moor)'' by eminent authority René de Latour, but there is some doubt whether the nickname was accepted by Robic or his contemporaries. It may have been Latour's conflation of the nickname of Robic's sometime Breton team-mate [[Jean-Marie Goasmat]], ''"le farfadet de Pluvigner"'' ''(the hobgoblin of Pluvigner)''. Goasmat was also small, slight and had big ears, whilst [[Pluvigner]] is a village in [[Morbihan]], Brittany. As of 2014 Latour's is the only known use of the nickname for Robic, whereas for Goasmat there are other French language sources.</ref><br>''Gueule cassée''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eurosport.fr/cyclisme/tour-de-france/2015/cannibale-grand-fusil-cheri-pipi-andy-torticolis.-le-top-20-des-surnoms-mythiques-du-cyclisme_sto4828071/story.shtml |title=Cannibale, Chéri-pipi, Wookie, Andy torticolis… le Top 20 des surnoms mythiques du cyclisme |last=Vergne |first=Laurent|date=22 July 2015|website=[[Eurosport]]|language=French |trans-title=Cannibal, Chéri-pipi, Wookie, Andy Torticollis... the Top 20 mythical nicknames of cycling|access-date=11 April 2016}}</ref>
| birth_date    = {{birth date|df=yes|1921|06|10}}
| birth_place   = [[Vouziers]], [[French Third Republic|France]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age|df=yes|1980|10|06|1921|06|10}}
| death_place   = [[Claye-Souilly]], France
| height        = 1.61 m
| weight        = 60 kg
| currentteam   =
| discipline    = Road
| role          = Rider
| ridertype     = Climber
| amateuryears1 =
| amateurteam1  =
| proyears1     = 1943–1945
| proteam1      = Génial Lucifer, (France)
| proyears2     = 1946–1949
| proteam2      = Génial Lucifer–Hutchinson, (France)
| proyears3     = 1950
| proteam3      = Thomann–Riva Sport
| proyears4     = 1951
| proteam4      = Automoto–Dunlop, (France)
| proyears5     = 1952–1954
| proteam5      = Terrot–Hutchinson (France)
| proyears6     = 1955
| proteam6      = Gitane–Hutchinson (France)
| proyears7     = 1956–1957
| proteam7      = Essor–Leroux (France)
| proyears8     = 1958–1959
| proteam8      = Margnat–Coupry (France)
| proyears9     = 1960
| proteam9      = Rochet–Margnat (France)
| proyears10    = 1961
| proteam10     = Margnat–Rochet–Dunlop 
| majorwins     = '''[[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tours]]'''
:'''[[Tour de France]]'''
::[[General classification in the Tour de France|General classification]] ([[1947 Tour de France|1947]])
::6 stages
| show-medals    = yes
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Men's [[cyclo-cross]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{flagu|France}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, Men|1950 Paris]]|Elite}}
}}

'''Jean Robic''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒɑ̃ ʁɔ.bik|pron}}; 10 June 1921 – 6 October 1980)<ref name="L'Équipe 2003">L'Équipe, 9 July 2003</ref> was a French [[road racing cyclist]] who won the [[1947 Tour de France]]. Robic was a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961. His diminutive stature (1.61m, 60&nbsp;kg) and appearance<ref name="CycTour 329"/> was encapsulated in his nickname ''Biquet'' ''(Kid goat)''.<ref name="SportCyc 68"/> For faster, gravity-assisted descents, he collected drinking bottles ballasted with [[lead]] or [[mercury (element)|mercury]] at the summits of mountain climbs and "[[Mountain pass|cols]]".<ref name="JacAug 2001"/><ref name="Fife 1"/> After fracturing his skull in 1944 he always wore a [[trademark look|trademark]] leather [[crash helmet]].<ref name="SportCyc 68"/>

==Origins==
Robic has always been described as a [[Breton people|Breton]] but he was born in the [[Ardennes]] region of France, where his father had found work as a carpenter.<ref name="CycTour 329">[http://www.cyclo-tourisme.com/dossiers/dossiers.php?id_dossier=329 "Club cyclo du Ninian à Plémet"]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.</ref>
{{Cquote|"I was born in the Ardennes by mistake", Robic always insisted<ref name="L'Équipe 2003"/>}}
his father having lived in Brittany before he moved. His father was a racing cyclist and passed the interest to his son.<ref name="CycTour 329"/> Robic moved to Brittany when he was seven and lived at [[Radenac]]. His childhood home is in a street now named for him.

Robic moved to Paris In February 1940 and became a cycle mechanic for the Sausin company.<ref name="CycTour 329"/> He started racing but made a poor impression on journalists. René de Latour of [[Sporting Cyclist]] wrote:
<blockquote>If anybody had told you or me in 1939 that this skinny kid of 17, with ears large enough to be of help with a back wind blowing—if we had been told that here was a future winner of the [[Tour de France]], we would just have laughed. When his name first became known to journalists, he quickly became known as ''le farfadet de la lande bretonne''—the [[hobgoblin]] of the [[Brittany]] moor. His arrival in the Paris area was not sensational. Robic won a few races out in the villages but this did not mean much. We had hundreds of boys like him in France.<ref name="SportCyc 68">Sporting Cyclist, UK, January 1968</ref></blockquote>

==Early career==
The outbreak of [[World War II|war]] in 1939 and then the German invasion of 1940 made cycle-racing possible but difficult in France. Robic rode [[cyclo-cross]] races and as many of the big road races that were still run. He turned professional in 1943.<ref name="CycTour 329"/> The following year he fell in [[Paris–Roubaix]] and finished the race with a broken skull.<ref name="SportCyc 68"/> It was then that he started wearing the leather crash helmet for which he became known.<ref name="SportCyc 68"/> The helmet won him the nickname of ''tête de cuir'', or leather-head; his short stature also brought him the nickname "Biquet", or "kid goat".<ref>Sporting Cyclist, UK, December 1966</ref>

==Tour de France==
The Tour de France restarted after the war and Robic — still largely unknown — was selected for the regional team from north-west France, which meant largely from Brittany.<ref name="SportCyc 68"/> "He was hardly interviewed by journalists; his retirement on the first day would not have earned him more than a line in small type at the bottom of an obscure page of the papers", said de Latour.<ref name="SportCyc 68"/>  Robic, recently married, told his wife Raymonde he would bring her the Tour's [[yellow jersey]] as a wedding present.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070507193555/http://www.radiofrance.fr/reportage/dossiers/tour_2003/histoire/legende.php 100 ans de Tour]. Radio France</ref><ref>Fife, Graeme (1999) ''Tour de France, Mainstream'', {{ISBN|1840188065}}, p. 107</ref>

The first stage, from Paris to [[Lille]] was won by [[Ferdinand Kübler]] of Switzerland. Robic came ninth at 2m 9s. Robic won the stage on the fourth day, from [[Luxembourg]] to [[Strasbourg]], then rode well through the [[Alps]]. [[René de Latour]] said:

<blockquote>And yet the journalists—I among them—still didn't think Robic a Tour winner. We thought so more than ever when, the next day, the route included the great [[Col du Galibier|Galibier]], and Robic was out of the picture, with the Franco-Italian Camellini unapproachable up there in the snows. It seemed that Robic could not ride well two days running—and consistency is the biggest quality needed in the Tour.<ref name="SportCyc 68"/></blockquote>

The Tour then had easy stages along the Mediterranean where he could recover before riding still more strongly in the [[Pyrenees]], leading the race over the [[Col d'Aubisque|Aubisque]], [[Col du Tourmalet|Tourmalet]] and [[Col de Peyresourde|Peyresourde]] on the day from [[Luchon]] to [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]]. The time he gained moved him to fifth place, and the 139&nbsp;km [[time trial]] to third.

It was on the last day, from [[Caen]], that he secured the race.<ref name="Rey, Jean-Paul 2000">Rey, Jean-Paul (2000) ''100 Rois de la Petite Reine'', Solar, France. {{ISBN|226302980X}}.</ref> The leader was [[Pierre Brambilla]] and tradition had it that the race leader was left unchallenged to win the Tour when it reached Paris. Robic, however, attacked at half-distance on the two-kilometre hill to the village of Bonsecours, outside [[Rouen]]. Another Frenchman, [[Édouard Fachleitner]], went with him. So too did Brambilla, only to become sick from the effort.<ref>Clifford, Peter (1966) ''The Tour de France''. S. Paul</ref> The main field was uncertain what to do and unfavourable to Brambilla so soon after the war because he was riding for a team of Italians living in France.<ref name="SportCyc 68"/> It left the chase until too late. René de Latour wrote:

<blockquote>Robic had nothing to lose but his third place—end everything to gain. He jumped away as if his life depended on it. Luckily I had swapped from my car to the pillion of a motor-bike, and watched from close quarters every moment of the drama. When Robic opened a gap of a few lengths, Brambilla made a terrific effort to get back, and it seemed that was that. Then, from the bunch behind, that great rider, Fachleitner, sprinted past them both. Robic bounded on his wheel; Brambilla failed—and lost the Tour.<ref name="SportCyc 68"/></blockquote>

A group of riders were ahead of Robic and Fachleitner. They had lost too much time during the month that the Tour had lasted to challenge for race victory and so Léo Veron of the French national team told [[Lucien Teisseire]] to drop back and help Fachleitner. The three joined up 100&nbsp;km from the finish and Fachleitner attacked several times. Robic countered him each time and then Teisseire took over. Robic took no notice because Teisseire was no danger.<ref>Chany, Pierre (1988) ''La Fabuleuse Histoire du Tour de France'', Nathan, France, p. 356</ref> It was then, Fachleitner said, that Robic told him:

{{Cquote|'Ride with me. You'll come second but I'll give you 100,000 francs'<ref>Old francs, worth 1,000 revalued francs</ref>}}
That seemed straightforward (''C'était honnête'') to Fachleitner, "So I rode. In my head I was thinking: 'If he cracks or if he crashes, it'll be me who wins the Tour...' But he didn't crack and he didn't crash. He paid the 100,000 francs, not to me but to the French national team [for which Fachleitner was riding], which was the rule. Which brought me another outburst from [[René Vietto]]. 'You poor fool [''fada''],' he said to me, 'you should have asked for a lot more! What's this going to be worth once we've shared it between us?' Right up until his death, he kept saying to me 'You didn't ask enough.'"<ref>Vélo, France, July 2007</ref>

Robic, who until then had never led the race, reached the finish at the [[Parc des Princes]] 13 minutes ahead of Brambilla.<ref>L'Équipe, France, 19 July 2008</ref> The stage was so fast that it finished an hour ahead of schedule.<ref name="MemCycredo">[http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/dossiers/dos_cyclismag_robic_credo.php "memoire-du-cyclisme.net"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215231055/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/dossiers/dos_cyclismag_robic_credo.php |date=15 February 2009 }}.</ref> Legend has it that Brambilla buried his bike in his garden in disgust. More certain is that Robic gave his only yellow jersey to the [[Sainte-Anne-d'Auray]] basilica, where it still is, in thanks to Anne, patron saint of Bretons.

The twist to Robic's victory is that he wasn't the fastest rider in the race. Fachleitner had taken 3m 32s less to complete the Tour.<ref name="MemCycredo"/> It was the time bonuses that Robic picked up in the Pyrenees that made the difference.

==Other successes==
Robic also won the Rome-Naples-Rome in 1950, the world cyclo-cross championship in 1950,<ref>[http://www.bloc.com/article/sport/nature/le-cyclo-cross-une-course-dans-un-milieu-naturel-20080424.html "Le cyclo cross, une course dans un milieu naturel !"]. ''bloc.com''.</ref><ref>[http://encyclopedie.snyke.com/articles/cyclo_cross.html "Cyclo-cross"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716100445/http://encyclopedie.snyke.com/articles/cyclo_cross.html |date=16 July 2011 }}. encyclopedie.snyke.com</ref> and the [[Tour de Haute-Savoie]] and [[Polymultipliée]] in 1952.

==Personality and appearance==
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Robic was one of the shortest riders; 1m 61 in 1947 and 1m 59 in 1959. He weighed 60&nbsp;kg.<ref name="CycTour 329"/> He rode a {{convert|19|in|mm|adj=on}} frame but with 172&nbsp;mm cranks when the norm was 170&nbsp;mm. Robic was often bitter with the world.

<blockquote>One writer said: He was five-foot nothing [and] so light in weight that he ballasted his water bottles with lead to increase his momentum on the downhills. Tiny guy, blond curls crimped under a string-of-sausages helmet, gnarled face and [[Mr Punch]] hooked chin and nose... He wore a ring inscribed ''kenbeo kenmaro'', 'to life, to death' in Breton.<ref name="Fife 1">Fife, Graeme (1999) ''Tour de France, Mainstream'', {{ISBN|1840188065}}, p. 105</ref></blockquote>

Robic won few friends with his bad language<ref name="JacAug 2001">[[Jacques Augendre|Augendre, Jacques]] (16 July 2001) "Des Complicités Terribles", L'Équipe, France</ref> and quick temper. He was at war with everyone, said the journalist Jacques Augendre.<ref name="JacAug 2001"/> In 1959, Robic finished the Tour de France stage to [[Chalon-sur-Saône]] outside the time limit. The stage was won by the British rider, [[Brian Robinson (cyclist)|Brian Robinson]], with an unusually large lead of 20 minutes. Other riders were required to finish the day within a set percentage of the winner's time and Robic didn't make it. Normally the judges would make an exception for a former winner but Robic's personality is said to have gone against him and he was put out of the race.

He was astute at exploiting rules. He collected [[lead]] filled drinking bottles at the top of major climbs because his lightness led to his descending mountains slower than he wanted. When the organisers forbade filling bottles with solids, he filled his with [[mercury (element)|mercury]] instead.<ref name="JacAug 2001"/> He bragged of his talent, once dismissing [[Gino Bartali]] and saying of the other leading Italian that he had " a [[Fausto Coppi]] in each leg"<ref name="JacAug 2001"/>—meaning he was twice as good.

A fellow professional, [[André Mahé]], said in ''[[Procycling]]'' in 2007 that Robic's personality and self-importance was such that he would stand in the doorway of a restaurant until all the diners had noticed him and then announce: {{cquote|'''"Oui! C'est moi—Robic!"'''}}

==Doping==
There were no doping rules in Robic's era. The historian and television commentator, Jean-Paul Ollivier, wrote of the 1950 Tour de France in which he said Robic was deeply depressed, weeping abundantly.

<blockquote>He thought the Tour was lost. He had a cold and went to bed shivering with a fever. The next day, the boss of the hotel, unaccustomed to the timetable of the Tour de France, forgot to get up. The riders had to prepare their own breakfast in record time. Robic had [[enteritis]]. He was weak [''rien ne va plus'']. Escorted by his team-mates, Robert Bonnaventure and Gino Sciardis, he finished the stage pitifully at [[St-Étienne]] and dropped from fourth to seventh place in the standings, 37 minutes behind Ferdi Kübler. Robic was still weak at the start of the time trial from St-Étienne to Lyon. His [[soigneur]], Libaud, gave him an injection of solucamphor to get him going again [''pour le remonter'']<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RjAInSNJkbYC&pg=RA1-PA204 "Dictionnaire du dopage"].</ref></blockquote>

Robic said doping had always existed but that the most he had taken was a bottle of coffee mixed with "calva"—([[Calvados (brandy)|Calvados]]).<ref>Institut National de l'Audiovisuel – Ina.fr. [http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&from=fulltext&full=jean+robic&cs_page=1&cs_order=0&num_notice=10&total_notices=33 "Ina.fr : vidéo, radio, audio et publicité – Actualités, archives de la radio et de la télévision en ligne – Archives vidéo et radio Ina.fr"]. ''Ina.fr''.</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1943 Robic met Raymonde Cornic, whose father owned the Rendez-vous des Bretons bar near the Gare [[Montparnasse]] in Paris.<ref name="CycTour 329"/> The two married four days before the 1947 Tour. They had a son, Jean-Lou, in 1948, another son, Alain, in 1949 and a daughter, Christine, in 1952.<ref name="CycTour 329"/> Robic's father was killed in September 1945 by the branch of a tree he was sawing and Robic acquired a house in Petit-Clamart for his mother.<ref name="CycTour 329"/> Robic and his wife lived in the suburb of [[Wissous]]<ref>Just west of Orly airport, Paris</ref> and bought his mother a [[mercery]] shop there. His family still live in the region and have attended ceremonies in Robic's memory.

At 40, Robic took over the family bar.

==Retirement and death==
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Robic fell again while in the running to win the Tour de France of 1953. He broke bones in his spine. He rode the Tour again in 1954, 1955 and 1959 without finishing.<ref name="LeTour">[http://www.letour.com/HISTO/TDF/riders/fr/3011.html "Jean ROBIC"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512174701/http://www.letour.com/HISTO/TDF/riders/fr/3011.html |date=12 May 2006 }}. letour.com</ref> He rode local races and lived from the start money he was offered. He also went back to cyclo-cross, riding throughout the winter.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120223121220/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/dossiers/dos_buc_1947.php "Jean Robic dominee le cyclo-cruss de Buc]. memoire-du-cyclisme.net</ref> Robic rode his last race in 1967, in the [[Puteaux]] suburb of Paris. He was congratulated at the finish by his old rival, Louison Bobet.<ref name="SportCyc 68"/>

Robic found it hard to fit into an ordinary life when his career ended. He ran the family café but it failed, as did his marriage. From then on he became depressed.<ref name="CycTour 329"/> For a long time he went without work. At others, he tried stunts such as being the referee of professional wrestling bouts, where his shortness encouraged wrestlers to throw him out of the ring. He also sat on a bicycle in the publicity procession of the Tour de France. He became depressed and wandered the streets, asking for work, until his friend, Eugène Letendre, took him into his business.<ref name="CycTour 329"/>

He died in a car accident near [[Claye-Souilly]] on his way home from a party at [[Germigny-l'Évêque]] in which [[Joop Zoetemelk]] was celebrating his own win in the Tour.<ref name="Rey, Jean-Paul 2000"/> Robic's monument on the hill outside Rouen where he won the Tour shows him in his leather helmet.<ref>Dave Moulton. [http://davesbikeblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/jean-robic-little-giant.html "Dave Moulton's Bike Blog: Jean Robic: The little giant"].</ref><ref>Cycling. [http://www.siteducyclisme.net/monumentenb.php?coureurid=4542 "Monuments – Jean Robic"].</ref> 
He is buried in the [[cemetery]] at [[Wissous]]<ref name="CycTour 329"/> 
A room in the town hall in Radenac is a museum in his memory.<ref name="CycTour 329"/>

==Career achievements==
===Major results===
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
;1945
:{{flagu|France}} national cyclo-cross championship
;1947
:Critérium International de cyclo-cross
:[[1947 Tour de France|Tour de France]]:
::Winner stages 4, 7 and 15
::[[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] '''Winner overall classification'''
;1948
:À travers Lausanne
;1949
:[[1949 Tour de France|Tour de France]]:
::Winner stage 11
::4th place overall classification
;1950
: [[UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, Men|World Championship cyclo-cross]]
:Roma-Napoli-Roma
;1952
:[[Bol d'Or des Monédières|Bol d'Or des Monédières Chaumeil]]
:[[Trophée des Grimpeurs|Polymultipliée]]
:Etten-Leur
:[[1952 Tour de France|Tour de France]]:
::Winner stage 15
::5th place overall classification
;1953
:[[1953 Tour de France|Tour de France]]:
::Winner stage 11
{{div col end}}

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|align="center"| DNE
|rowspan=4 align="center" style="color:#888888;"| N/A 
|rowspan=4 align="center" style="color:#888888;"| N/A 
|rowspan=4 align="center" style="color:#888888;"| N/A 
|rowspan=4 align="center" style="color:#888888;"| N/A 
|align="center"| DNE
|align="center"| DNE
|align="center"| DNE
|align="center"| DNE
|align="center"| DNE
|-
|align="right" |Stages won
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|-
|align="right" |Mountains classification
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|align="center"| —
|-
|align="right" |Points classification
|align="center" style="color:#888888;"| N/A 
|align="center" style="color:#888888;"| N/A 
|align="center" style="color:#888888;"| N/A 
|align="center" | —
|align="center" | —
|align="center" | —
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|}
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==Notes==
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==References==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* {{Cycling Archives|4542}}
* [http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/coureur/3011.html Official Tour de France results for Jean Robic]

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{{UCI Cyclo-cross World Champions – Men's road race}}

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