Raymond Louviot | |
Full Name: | Raymond Louviot |
Birth Date: | 17 December 1908 |
Birth Place: | Granges, Switzerland |
Death Place: | Dunkirk, France |
Discipline: | Road |
Role: | Rider |
Majorwins: | French national road race championship (1934) GP des nations (1933) GP Ouest-France (1947) |
Raymond Louviot (17 December 1908 – 14 May 1969) was a French professional road bicycle racer. He was the grandfather of cyclist Philippe Louviot.
He became a team manager after retirement. The British cyclist, Brian Robinson, accuses a commercial tie-up between Louviot and Miguel Poblet a rival in another team, for denying him first place in the 1957 Milan–San Remo. Robinson said:
My manager, Raymond Louviot, had a tie-up in the cycle trade with Poblet. He told me that if Poblet was anywhere near me it was my job to get him over the line first. I buggered off up a hill, then my manager came up and told me 'Remember what I told you.' Poblet won, I was third, that is my biggest regret. If I had won I would have been made for life.[1] [2]