François Pervis

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François Pervis Road cycling
François Pervis at the UEC European Rail Championships 2015
François Pervis at the
UEC European Rail Championships 2015
To person
Date of birth October 16, 1984
nation FranceFrance France
discipline train
Driver type Short term
To the team
Current team Equipe cycliste Armée de Terre
function driver
Team (s)
2009-2010 Equipe Cofidis
Most important successes
Olympic games
2016 Bronze medal-2008OB.svg - team sprint (with Grégory Baugé and Michaël D'Almeida )

UCI Track World Championships
Jersey rainbow.svg Sprint ( 2014 )
Jersey rainbow.svgKeirin ( 2014 , 2015 )
Jersey rainbow.svgTime Trial ( 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2017 )

Last updated: April 27, 2017

François Pervis (born October 16, 1984 in Château-Gontier ) is a French track cyclist and specialist in short-term disciplines. He has been one of the dominant track cyclists in France since the early 2000s, he has been elite world champion seven times (as of 2017).

Athletic career

In his hometown of Château-Gontier, François Pervis started cycling at the age of twelve and tried his hand at all disciplines - road racing, mountain biking , cyclo-cross racing and track cycling - until he finally decided on the track.

In 2001 Pervis won second place in the team sprint at the junior track world championships and the first at the European championships (juniors) in Fiorenzuola d'Arda . In 2002 he became Junior World Champion in team sprint (with Grégory Baugé and Mickaël Murat). In the same year he became European champion in the 1000 meter time trial in Büttgen . In 2003 and 2004 he became European champion two more times, in the team sprint and in the time trial.

In 2005, Pervis became the French elite time trial champion for the first time and won this title again in 2006 and 2008. He also always achieved excellent placings in World Cup races . When he took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , he finished sixth in the time trial. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he was registered as a substitute for the team sprint, but was not used.

In 2007 François Pervis was runner-up in the 1000 meter world championship, and in 2009 in the Keirin . In 2006 , 2008 , 2010 and 2011 , he finished third in the time trial at the World Track Championships. In 2013 he became world champion in this discipline in Minsk ; Together with Julien Palma and Michaël D'Almeida , he finished third in the team sprint. Pervis won another bronze medal in the sprint.

At the second round of the Track Cycling World Cup in 2013/14 and Aguascalientes , Pervis set two world records : over 200 meters with 9.347 seconds, he improved the four-year-old record of his compatriot Kévin Sireau of 9.572 seconds and over 1000 meters with 56.303 seconds. The previous world record of 58.875 seconds by Arnaud Tournant came from 2001. In 2014 he was three-time world champion at the track world championships in Cali , in the sprint, in the keirin and in the time trial.

At the 2015 Track Cycling World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines , a suburb of Paris, Pervis defended his title in Keirin from last year and became world time trial champion for the third time in a row. In the sprint, Pervis had to admit defeat in the quarterfinals. In the autumn of the same year, on track European Championships in Switzerland Grenchen , he was European vice-champion in the keirin.

In 2016, François Pervis was nominated to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Together with Grégory Baugé and Michaël D'Almeida , he won the bronze medal in the team sprint. He finished 16th in the sprint and eighth in the Keirin. The following year he became world time trial champion for the fourth time .

In March 2020, Pervis announced that he would start with the visually impaired driver Raphaël Beaugillet at the Summer Paralympics 2020 in Tokyo as his pilot on the tandem .

Honors

In 2014, François Pervis was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

successes

Pervis at the six days of Grenoble 2011

2001

2002

  • World ChampionJunior World Champion - team sprint (with Mickaël Murat and Grégory Baugé )
  • silver Junior World Championship - 1000 meter time trial
  • bronze Junior World Championship - Sprint
  • European champion Junior European Champion - 1000 meter time trial
  • silverJunior European Championship - sprint, team sprint (with Kevin Corroleur and Mickaël Murat )

2003

2004

  • European champion European Champion (U23) - 1000-meter time trial

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

  • World Champion World Champion - Sprint, Keirin, 1000-meter time trial
  • MaillotFra.PNG French champion - Keirin, 1000 meter time trial

2015

2016

2017

  • World Champion World champion - 1000 meter time trial
  • MaillotFra.PNG French champion - 1000 meter time trial
2018

Web links

Commons : François Pervis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Levy drives a German record - Pervis with a world record. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, December 6, 2013, archived from the original on December 11, 2013 ; Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Gildas Menguy: Le pistard mayennais François Pervis va disputer les Jeux paralympiques de Tokyo en tandem. In: francebleu.fr. March 12, 2020, accessed on March 12, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Décret du 18 avril 2014 portant nomination - Legifrance. In: legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Pervis, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Château-Gontier