Jesse Sergent

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Jesse Sergent Road cycling
Jesse Sergent (2012)
Jesse Sergent (2012)
To person
Date of birth July 8, 1988
nation New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
discipline Train / street
Most important successes
Olympic Summer Games
2012 bronze - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Marc Ryan , Aaron Gate and Westley Gough )
2008 bronze - Team Pursuit (with Sam Bewley , Hayden Roulston and Marc Ryan )
Last updated: July 23, 2016

Jesse Harold Sergent (born July 8, 1988 in Feilding ) is a former New Zealand track and road cyclist.

Jesse Sergent was junior track cycling world champion in the team pursuit in Vienna in 2005 , together with Sam Bewley , Westley Gough and Darren Shea . At the Oceania Games in Wanganui in the same year , he won four medals, each gold in the junior single pursuit and in the individual time trial on the road, and silver in the track disciplines points trial and scratch . At the junior track cycling world championships in 2006 in Ghent , Belgium , he won silver in the team pursuit and bronze in the individual pursuit.

With the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing was Jesse Sergent together with Sam Bewley , Hayden Roulston and Marc Ryan member of the New Zealand team that won the bronze medal in the team pursuit.

From 2009 Jesse Sergent started increasingly in road races and finished 18th in the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in 2011 . In 2012 and 2013 he started at the Giro d'Italia , and in 2014 at the Vuelta a España .

In 2015 Sergent was hit by an escort vehicle during the Tour of Flanders . After this accident, he had to undergo several operations and it was only three months later that he was able to train again. At the beginning of 2016 he signed a contract with ag2r La Mondiale with the aim of competing in the Tour de France . However, he contested his last race with the Tour de Suisse and announced his immediate retirement from active cycling on July 22, 2016.

Successes - rail

2005
2006
  • New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand Champion - Singles Pursuit (Juniors)
2008
2009
  • World Cup Beijing - Individual Pursuit
  • gold Oceania Champion - one's pursuit
  • goldOceania Champion - Madison (with Tom Scully )
2010
2011
2012

Successes - road

Sergent at the Tour d'Oman 2010
2006
  • New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
2009
2011
2014
2015

Teams

Web links

Commons : Jesse Sergent  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jesse Sergent retires from cycling. In: Cycling News. July 22, 2016, accessed July 23, 2016 .