Jean Dotto

Personal information
Full name	Jean-Baptiste Dotto
Nickname	Le Vigneron de Cabasse
Born	(1928-03-27)27 March 1928 St-Nazaire, France
Died	20 February 2000(2000-02-20) (aged 71) Ollioules, France
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Professional teams
1948-1950	Independent (semi-professional)
1950	Urago
1951-1953	France Sport Dunlop
1953	Magnat-Debon-Wolber
1954	Magnat-Debon
1954	Terrot-Hutchinson
1955	Vampire d'Alessandro
1956	St-Raphaël-Dunlop-Geminiani
1957-1959	Liberia Hutchinson
1960-1962	Liberia-Grammont
1963	Margnat-Paloma
Major wins
Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1952, 1960) 1955 Vuelta a España

Jean-Baptiste Dotto (27 March 1928, in St-Nazaire – 20 February 2000, in Ollioules, France^[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 Jiménez of Spain and Raphaël Géminiani 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]

• Jean Dotto at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Official Tour de France results for Jean Dotto