Jesse Sergent

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Field	Value
name	Jesse Sergent
image	Jesse Sergent 3DWV2011 3.JPG
caption	Sergent at the 2011 Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen, a race he would win overall.
fullname	Jesse Sergent
nickname	Goose
birth_date
birth_place	Feilding, New Zealand
height	1.89 m
weight	77 kg
currentteam	Retired
discipline	Road
role	Rider
ridertype
amateuryears1	2009–2010
amateurteam1
amateuryears2	2010
amateurteam2	(stagiaire)
proyears1	2011
proteam1
proyears2	2012–2015
proteam2
proyears3	2016
proteam3
majorwins	One-day races and Classics
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Jesse Sergent (born 8 July 1988) is a retired New Zealand racing cyclist who rode professionally between 2011 and 2016 for , and .

Career

Born in Feilding, Sergent won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, as part of the New Zealand team in team pursuit, together with Sam Bewley, Hayden Roulston, Westley Gough and Marc Ryan. | title = Cycling: I'm not finished yet, says Roulston | url = http://www.nzherald.co.nz/event/story.cfm?c_id=502&objectid=10527767 | work = The New Zealand Herald | date = 18 August 2008 | access-date = 2008-08-18 | first = Eugene | last = Bingham}}

On 10 November 2008, it was announced that Sergent had signed with 's under-23 development team, for 2009 and 2010. Sergent became a stagiaire with for the last part of the 2010 season. He then signed a professional contract for 2011 with . He represented New-Zealand at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India. Sergent won a silver medal in the Individual Pursuit and silver in the Team Pursuit. |title=Bewley, Sergent team up with Lance |url=http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318241/2297546 |work=TVNZ |date=10 November 2008 |access-date=2008-11-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520074611/http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318241/2297546 |archive-date=20 May 2011

Sergent switched to track cycling for the 2012 London Olympics, where he and his teammates (Sam Bewley, Marc Ryan, Westley Gough) made themselves double Olympic bronze medalists. Aaron Gate was the only rider added to the team.

In 2013, Sergent rode for . He started the racing season with New Zealand elite road nations where he placed third.

In 2014, Sergent continued to ride for – renamed . For the 2014 season Sergent provided support to Fabian Cancellara. Sergent also rode in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games individual road time trial and road race.

Sergent was hit by a neutral service car during the 2015 Tour of Flanders, an accident which kept him out of the sport for three months and resulted in him having three operations. He subsequently signed a two-year deal with from the start of the 2016 season. However, in July 2016, Sergent retired from professional cycling at the age of 28.

Major results

;2005 : 1st [[File:OceaniaChampionJersey.png|20px]] Time trial, Oceania Junior Road Championships ;2006 : 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships ;2008 : 3rd [[File:Bronze medal olympic.svg|15px]] Team pursuit, Olympic Games ;2009 : 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Southland : 3rd [[File:Bronze medal blank.svg|15px]] Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships ;2010 : 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Tour of the Gila : 1st Prologue Cascade Cycling Classic : UCI Track World Championships ::2nd [[File:Silver medal blank.svg|15px]] Individual pursuit ::3rd [[File:Bronze medal blank.svg|15px]] Team pursuit : Commonwealth Games ::2nd [[File:Silver medal blank.svg|15px]] Individual pursuit ::2nd [[File:Silver medal blank.svg|15px]] Team pursuit ::9th Time trial : 3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships : 3rd Overall Olympia's Tour ;2011 : 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen ::1st Prologue : 1st [[File:Jersey white.svg|20px]] Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes ::1st Stage 4 (ITT) : 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Eneco Tour : 2nd [[File:Silver medal blank.svg|15px]] Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2012 : 2nd Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen : 3rd [[File:Bronze medal olympic.svg|15px]] Team pursuit, Olympic Games : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships : 6th Overall Three Days of De Panne ;2013 : 7th Overall Volta ao Algarve ;2014 : 1st Stage 5 Tour of Austria : 5th Time trial, Commonwealth Games : 8th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen ;2015 : 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Alberta : 3rd Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen

References

References

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2. "Trek Factory Racing (TFR) – USA". [[Union Cycliste Internationale]].
3. Richardson, Daniel. (6 September 2010). "Sergent excited to join Armstrong's team". [[Stuff (website).
4. "Glasgow 2014 – Jesse Sergent Profile".
5. (22 July 2016). "Jesse Sergent retires from cycling". Future Publishing Limited.

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