François Pervis

François Pervis

François Pervis 2011
Personal information
Born	(1984-10-16) 16 October 1984 Château-Gontier, France
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight	86 kg (190 lb; 13.5 st)[1]
Team information
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Medal record Competitor for  France Track cycling World Championships Gold 2013 Minsk Time trial Gold 2014 Cali Keirin Gold 2014 Cali Sprint Gold 2014 Cali Time trial Gold 2015 Yvelines Keirin Gold 2015 Yvelines Time trial Silver 2007 Palma de Mallorca Time trial Bronze 2005 Los Angeles Time trial Bronze 2008 Manchester Time trial Bronze 2010 Ballerup Time trial Bronze 2011 Apeldoorn Time trial Bronze 2013 Minsk Team sprint Bronze 2013 Minsk Sprint European Championships Silver 2010 Pruszków Team Sprint Silver 2011 Apeldoorn Team sprint Silver 2013 Apeldoorn Team sprint Bronze 2011 Apeldoorn Keirin Bronze 2013 Apeldoorn Keirin

François "Franck" Pervis (born 16 October 1984)^[2] is a French track cyclist. He is a former junior World Champion in the team sprint and twice European under 23 champion, as well as a 4x World Champion and holder of two world records.

Biography

Born in Château-Gontier, in the Mayenne département, Pays de la Loire, France, Pervis joined his first cycling club, the Véloce Club de Château Gontier, in 1996. He dabbled in road, mountain biking, cyclo-cross and track cycling as a youngster and began concentrating on the track as a junior rider.^[1]

He went on to win the silver medal as part of the team sprint squad at the 2001 Junior UCI Track World Championships. He bettered that in 2002 when he took the gold medal in the same event and added a silver in the sprint.

In 2003, he was a member of the gold medal winning team sprint squad at the Under 23 European Track Championships, and won the U23 Sprint at the French National Track Championships, and finished second in the U23 Kilo.

Pervis competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, finishing sixth in the Kilo. He also won the kilo at the Under 23 European Track Championships, came second in the U23 Sprint National Championships and was third in the team sprint at the World Cup in Manchester.

2005 saw Pervis take his first senior French National Championship title, winning the kilo, and coming second in the U23 sprint.

Pervis successfully defended his French National Championship title in the kilo in 2006, also winning the U23 sprint title and coming second in the team sprint. He won a handful of medals in the World Cup events in Los Angeles and Sydney as well as two silver medals in the kilo and team sprint at the Under 23 European Track Championships. He also claimed the bronze medal at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

He was again the senior French National Champion in 2007, beating Didier Henriette to take his third consecutive kilo title, and also taking the bronze medal in the keirin. He won the silver medal in the kilo at the 2007 UCI Track World Championships, and won several medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics in Los Angeles, Manchester and Beijing. Pervis also finished second in the Sprint Omnium at the European Track Championships in Alkmaar

2008 brought more victories for Pervis in the World Cup events in Los Angeles and Ballerup. He took the bronze medal this time round at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He served as a substitute for the team sprint, representing France once again at the 2008 Summer Olympics, in Beijing, but did not ride. His team mates went on to take the silver medal.

Pervis set a new world record time in the kilometre time trial at a UCI Track Cycling World Cup event on 7 December 2013. At the Aquascalientes velodrome in Mexico he beat the previous world record by over two and a half seconds to record a time of 56.303.

Palmarès

References

External links

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