# Jesse Sergent

Jesse Sergent (born 8 July 1988) is a retired New Zealand racing cyclist who rode professionally between 2011 and 2016 for Team RadioShack, Trek Factory Racing and AG2R La Mondiale.

## 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.
On 10 November 2008, it was announced that Sergent had signed with Trek–Livestrong's under-23 development team, for 2009 and 2010. Sergent became a stagiaire with Team RadioShack for the last part of the 2010 season. He then signed a professional contract for 2011 with Team RadioShack. 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. Sergent, with several other riders, joined the former Leopard Trek team to form RadioShack–Nissan, ahead of the 2012 season.
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 RadioShack–Leopard. He started the racing season with New Zealand elite road nations where he placed third.
In 2014, Sergent continued to ride for RadioShack–Leopard – renamed Trek Factory Racing. 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 AG2R La Mondiale 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 Time trial, Oceania Junior Road Championships

### 2006

    1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships

### 2008

    3rd Team pursuit, Olympic Games

### 2009

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Southland
    3rd 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 Individual pursuit
       3rd Team pursuit
    Commonwealth Games
       2nd Individual pursuit
       2nd Team pursuit
       9th Time trial
    3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    3rd Overall Olympia's Tour

### 2011

    1st Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
       1st Prologue
    1st Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
       1st Stage 4 (ITT)
    1st Stage 4 (ITT) Eneco Tour
    2nd Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
    2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

### 2012

    2nd Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
    3rd 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