- François Pervis
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dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1984|10|16|df=yes
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updated = 11 September 2008François "Franck" Pervis (born 16 October 1984)cite web| url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/7/217137.shtml| title=Athlete Biography - PERVIS Francois | publisher=Beijing Olympics official website] is a French track cyclist. He is a former junior World Champion in the team sprint and twice European under 23 champion. Pervis also won three French national élite titles and six
UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics races.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.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 theFrench National Track Championships , and finished second int he 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 inManchester .2005 saw Pervis take his first senior French National Championship title, winning the kilo, and coming second inthe U23 sprint. He also claimed the bronze medal at the UCI Track World Championships.
Pervis succesfully defended his French National Championship title in the kilo in 2006, also winning the U23 sprint title and comng second in the team sprint. He won a handful of medals in the World Cup events in
Los Angeles andSydney as well as two silver medals in the kilo and team sprint at the Under 23 European Track Championships.He was again the senior French National Champion in 2007, beating
Didier Henriette to take his third consecuitve 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 theUCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics in Los Angeles, Manchester andBeijing . Pervis also finished second in the Sprint Omnium at the European Track Championships inAlkmaar 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 World Championships. He served as a substitute for the team sprint, representing France once again at the2008 Summer Olympics , in Beijing, but did not ride. His team mates went on to take the silver medal.Palmarès
;2001:2nd Team sprint, UCI Track World Championships (Junior);2002:1st Team sprint, UCI Track World Championships (Junior):3rd Sprint, UCI Track World Championships (Junior);2003:1st Team sprint,
European Track Championships (U23):2nd Kilo,French National Track Championships (U23):1st Sprint,French National Track Championships (U23);2004:3rd Team sprint,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Manchester:1st Kilo,European Track Championships (U23):2nd Sprint,French National Track Championships (U23);2005:3rd Kilo,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Sydney:1st Team sprint,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Sydney:1st flagicon|FRA Kilo,French National Track Championships :2nd Sprint,French National Track Championships (U23):3rd Kilo, UCI Track World Championships;2006:3rd Kilo,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Los Angeles:1st Team sprint,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Los Angeles:2nd Kilo,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Sydney:2nd Team sprint,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Sydney:2nd Kilo,European Track Championships (U23):2nd Team sprint,European Track Championships (U23):1st flagicon|FRA Kilo,French National Track Championships :1st Sprint,French National Track Championships (U23):2nd Team sprint,French National Track Championships ;2007:2nd Kilo, UCI Track World Championships:1st Kilo,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Los Angeles:2nd Team sprint,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Los Angeles:2nd Kilo,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Manchester:1st Kilo,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Beijing:2nd Team sprint,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Beijing:2nd Omnium, Sprint,European Track Championships , Alkmaar:1st flagicon|FRA Kilo,French National Track Championships :3rd Keirin,French National Track Championships ;2008:2nd Team sprint,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Los Angeles:1st Team sprint,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Ballerup (withGrégory Bauge &Kevin Sireau ):1st Kilo,UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Ballerup:3rd Kilo, UCI Track World ChampionshipsReferences
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