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François "Franck" Pervis (born 16 October 1984) 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 seven-time world champion and a holder of two world records. In 2014 he became the first track cyclist to win three individual world titles at one championship, in the keirin, 1 km and sprint.
Biography
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 JuniorUCI Track World Championships
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. 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
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, 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
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in Athens
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, 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
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.
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
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and Sydney
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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
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.
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
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in Los Angeles, Manchester and Beijing
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. Pervis also finished second in the Sprint Omnium at the European Track Championships in Alkmaar
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2008 brought more victories for Pervis in the World Cup events in Los Angeles and Ballerup
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. He took the bronze medal this time round at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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. He served as a substitute for the team sprint
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, representing France
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once again at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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, in Beijing, but did not ride. His teammates 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 Aguascalientes velodrome in Mexico he beat the previous world record by over two and a half seconds to record a time of 56.303.
Personal life
He lives inYvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.Denis Troch.Fracois Pervis
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Junior 
U23 
U23 French National Track Championships (Individual Sprint)
:2nd U23 French National Track Championships (Kilo)
;2004
:1st U23 French National Track Championships (Kilo)
:1st French National Track Championships (Kilo)
:1st U23 French National Track Championships (Individual Sprint)
:1st French National Track Championships (Kilo)
:1st French National Track Championships (Kilo)
;2013
:1st French National Track Championships (Kilo)
:1st French National Track Championships (Keirin)
;2015
:1st
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Palmarès
;2001 :2nd JuniorUCI Track World Championships
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(Team sprint)
;2002
:1st Junior UCI Track World Championships
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(Team Sprint)
:3rd Junior UCI Track World Championships
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(Individual Sprint)
;2003
:1st U23 European Track Championships
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(Team Sprint)
:1st U23 French National Track Championships (Individual Sprint)
:2nd U23 French National Track Championships (Kilo)
;2004
:1st U23 European Track Championships
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(Kilo)
:2nd Sprint, French National Track Championships (U23)
:3rd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Manchester (Team Sprint)
;2005
:1st French National Track Championships (Kilo)
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Sydney (Team sprint)
:2nd U23 French National Track Championships (Individual Sprint)
:3rd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Sydney (Kilo)
;2006
:1st French National Track Championships (Kilo)
:1st U23 French National Track Championships (Individual Sprint)
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Los Angeles (Team sprint)
:2nd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Sydney (Kilo)
:2nd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Sydney (Team sprint)
:2nd U23 European Track Championships
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(Kilo)
:2nd U23 European Track Championships
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(Team sprint)
:2nd French National Track Championships (Team sprint)
:3rd UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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(Kilo)
:3rd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Los Angeles (Kilo)
;2007
:1st French National Track Championships (Kilo)
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Los Angeles (Kilo)
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Beijing (Kilo)
:2nd UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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(Kilo)
:2nd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Los Angeles (Team Sprint)
:2nd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Manchester (Kilo)
:2nd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Beijing (Team Sprint)
:2nd European Track Championships
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(Individual Sprint)
:3rd French National Track Championships (Keirin)
;2008
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Ballerup (Team Sprint with Grégory Baugé & Kévin Sireau)
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Ballerup (Kilo)
:2nd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Los Angeles (Team Sprint)
:3rd UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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(Kilo)
;2009
:1st French National Track Championships (Kilo)
;2013
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Ranking The UCI Track Cycling World Ranking is a track cycling ranking system based upon the results in all men's and women's Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI-sanctioned races over a twelve-month period. The ranking includes an individual and a nations ra ...
(Kilo)
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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(Kilo)
:2nd European Track Championships
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(Team Sprint with Grégory Baugé and Michaël D'Almeida)
:3rd UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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(Individual Sprint)
:3rd UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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(Team Sprint with Julien Palma and Michaël D'Almeida)
:3rd European Track Championships
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(Keirin)
;2014
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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(Keirin)
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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(Individual Sprint)
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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(Kilo)
:1st French National Track Championships (Kilo)
:1st French National Track Championships (Keirin)
;2015
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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(Keirin)
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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(Kilo)
:1st UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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– Cali (Team Sprint with Grégory Baugé & Quentin Lafargue)
:1st Anadia (Individual Sprint)
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