# Annette Sergent > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Annette_Sergent > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Annette_Sergent.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Sergent > Source revision: 1339201400 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|French long-distance runner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2026}} {{Infobox sportsperson | other_names = {{ubl|Annette Sergent-Palluy|Annette Sergent-Petit}} | birth_date = 17 November 1962 | birth_place = [Chambéry](/source/Chamb%C3%A9ry), France | height = 156 cm | weight = 46 kg | country = {{FRA}} | sport = [Athletics](/source/Sport_of_athletics) | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Women's [athletics](/source/Sport_of_athletics)}} {{MedalCountry|{{FRA}}}} {{Medal|Competition|[World Cross Country Championships](/source/IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships)}} {{Medal|Gold |[1987 Warsaw](/source/1987_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships)|Long race}} {{Medal|Gold |[1989 Stavanger](/source/1989_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships)|Long race}} {{Medal|Bronze |[1986 Colombier](/source/1986_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships)|Long race}} {{Medal|Bronze |[1988 Auckland](/source/1988_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships)|Long race}} {{Medal|Competition|[European Championships](/source/European_Athletics_Championships)}} {{Medal|Bronze |[1990 Split](/source/1990_European_Athletics_Championships)|[10,000 m](/source/1990_European_Athletics_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_10%2C000_metres)}} {{Medal|Competition|[Mediterranean Games](/source/Athletics_at_the_Mediterranean_Games)}} {{Medal|Silver |[1993 Languedoc](/source/1993_Mediterranean_Games)|[3000 m](/source/Athletics_at_the_1993_Mediterranean_Games)}} }} '''Annette Sergent''' (born 17 November 1962) is a French former [long-distance runner](/source/long-distance_runner). She represented her country three times at the [Summer Olympics](/source/Summer_Olympics), but it was in [cross country running](/source/cross_country_running) that she had her greatest success. She became the first Frenchwoman to win a world title in the sport at the [1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships](/source/1987_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships) and won for a second time in [1989](/source/1989_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships). In addition to these victories, she made eleven appearances at the competition and placed third in both 1986 and 1988. Her sole major track medal came over [10,000 metres](/source/10%2C000_metres) at the [1990 European Athletics Championships](/source/1990_European_Athletics_Championships), where she was the [bronze medal](/source/bronze_medal)list. She was also a 3000 m [silver medal](/source/silver_medal)list at the [1993 Mediterranean Games](/source/1993_Mediterranean_Games). Over her career, she competed at the [World Championships in Athletics](/source/World_Championships_in_Athletics) on three occasions. Sergent was a fifteen-time French champion, taking national honours eight times on the track and seven times in cross country.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/fra.htm French Championships]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 28 December 2011.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/frai.htm French Indoor Championships]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 28 December 2011. She set a number of national record marks in her career and remains the [French record](/source/French_records_in_athletics) holder over 2000 m. She was twice married and ran under the names Annette ''Sergent-Palluy'' and ''Sergent-Petit''. ==Career== ===Early life=== Born in [Chambéry](/source/Chamb%C3%A9ry), France,{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Annette Sergent-Palluy |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/se/annette-sergent-palluy-1.html |access-date=28 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203231731/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/se/annette-sergent-palluy-1.html |archive-date=3 December 2016 |quote=Full name: Annette Sergent-Palluy (Petit) }} she initially focused on the [3000 metres](/source/3000_metres) and won the French under-23 title at the age of nineteen and broke the French under-23 record in 1982. Sergent went on to win her first national title over that distance in 1983. She won a [1500](/source/1500_metres)/3000 m double at the [French Athletics Championships](/source/French_Athletics_Championships) the year after and was selected to represent France at the [1984 Summer Olympics](/source/1984_Summer_Olympics) in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles).{{cite web |url=http://bases.athle.com/asp.net/athletes.aspx?base=biographies&seq=326545 |title=ANNETTE SERGENT-PETIT |publisher=FFA |access-date=28 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121224622/http://bases.athle.com/asp.net/athletes.aspx?base=biographies&seq=326545 |archive-date=21 January 2016}} On her first senior international outing, she was eliminated in the first round of the 3000 m, coming seventh in her heat. She closed the year with a win at the [Cross du Figaro](/source/Cross_du_Figaro) in Paris.[https://www.arrs.run/HP_FigXC.htm Cross du Figaro]. [Association of Road Racing Statisticians](/source/Association_of_Road_Racing_Statisticians) (15 January 2011). Retrieved on 29 December 2011. In 1985 she retained her two national track titles and began to prove herself in [cross country running](/source/cross_country_running); Sergent won the first of her seven French cross country titles that year and finished seventeenth overall at the [1985 IAAF World Cross Country Championships](/source/1985_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships).[http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/letter=0/athcode=61700/index.html Sergent Annette]. [IAAF](/source/IAAF). Retrieved on 28 December 2011. In October, she won on the roads at the 10K [Foulées de Suresnes](/source/Foul%C3%A9es_de_Suresnes).Seigneuric, Yves & Lefeuvre, Thierry (20 January 2011). [https://www.arrs.run/HP_Sures10.htm Foulées de Suresnes 10 km]. ARRS . Retrieved on 29 December 2011. At the [1986 edition](/source/1986_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships) of the competition she won her first international medals in the long race, taking [bronze medal](/source/bronze_medal)s in the individual and team events. Her continental track debut for France came at the [1986 European Athletics Championships](/source/1986_European_Athletics_Championships) in [Stuttgart](/source/Stuttgart) and although she was eliminated in the heats of the 1500 m, she managed eighth in the [women's 3000 m final](/source/1986_European_Athletics_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_3000_metres). ===World champion=== Sergent claimed her first world title at the [1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships](/source/1987_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships), beating [Liz Lynch](/source/Liz_Lynch) by two seconds. She also led the French women to second in the team rankings behind the [United States](/source/United_States) (led by [Lynn Jennings](/source/Lynn_Jennings)).[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/xc.htm World Cross Country Championships]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 29 December 2011. Her debut at the [1987 World Championships in Athletics](/source/1987_World_Championships_in_Athletics) followed and she narrowly missed the final, finishing eighth in her heat. She began the 1988 season with wins at the [Cinque Mulini](/source/Cinque_Mulini) cross country meeting and the French Championship race.[http://www.cinquemulini.org/main/images/pdf/Albodoro/seniorf.pdf Cinque Mulini Women's winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725171734/http://www.cinquemulini.org/main/images/pdf/Albodoro/seniorf.pdf |date=25 July 2011 }}. Cinque Mulini. Retrieved on 29 December 2011. At the [World Cross Championships](/source/1988_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships) in [Auckland](/source/Auckland) she failed to retain her title but won a medal for the third year running, taking individual and team bronze medals in the long race. On the track she set [national records](/source/French_records_in_athletics) in the 3000 m and the [10,000 metres](/source/10%2C000_metres). She was a finalist in both events at the [1988 Seoul Olympics](/source/Athletics_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics), finishing 12th and 19th respectively. That year she ranked second over 5000 m at the [IAAF Grand Prix Final](/source/IAAF_Grand_Prix_Final), finishing as runner-up to Britain's [Liz McColgan](/source/Liz_McColgan).[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/gp.htm IAAF Grand Prix Final]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 28 December 2011. A fifth consecutive French cross country title came in 1989 and at the [1989 IAAF World Cross Country Championships](/source/1989_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships) she returned to the top of the podium, taking the gold medal and taking France to the team runner-up spot close behind the Soviet team. She suffered an injury, missing the rest of the season, and returned to action at the [1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships](/source/1990_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships) held in [Aix-les-Bains](/source/Aix-les-Bains). She was not at full strength, however, and finished in 17th place overall. She competed over 10,000 m at the [1990 European Athletics Championships](/source/1990_European_Athletics_Championships) in [Split](/source/Split_(city)) and came away with the [bronze medal](/source/bronze_medal) (her first on the track) and a new French record mark of 31:51.68 minutes.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ecw.htm European Championships (Women)]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 29 December 2011. After the track season, she took to the roads and won the 3 km race at the [Giro Podistico Internazionale di Pettinengo](/source/Giro_Podistico_Internazionale_di_Pettinengo) in Italy.Civai, Franco & Gasparovic, Juraj (20 October 2011). [https://www.arrs.run/HP_Petti10.htm Giro Podistico Internazionale di Pettinengo]. ARRS. Retrieved on 29 December 2011. Her principal race of 1991 came over 10,000 m at the [1991 World Championships in Athletics](/source/1991_World_Championships_in_Athletics). Although she qualified easily with a run 31:55.97 minutes, she could not match this form in the final, in which she finished 19th and was over a minute slower. Sergent's career began to decline and in 1992 she came 27th at the [1992 World Cross Country](/source/1992_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships) race and failed to make it out of the 10,000 m heats at the [1992 Barcelona Olympics](/source/Athletics_at_the_1992_Summer_Olympics). She was part of the bronze medal-winning women's team at the [1993 IAAF World Cross Country Championships](/source/1993_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships), but it was [Farida Fatès](/source/Farida_Fat%C3%A8s) who led the team while Sergent finished in 34th place. At the [1993 World Championships in Athletics](/source/1993_World_Championships_in_Athletics) she was eliminated in the heats of the 3000 m in her third and final appearance at the competition. She did not end the season empty handed, however, as at the [1993 Mediterranean Games](/source/1993_Mediterranean_Games), held on home turf in [Languedoc-Roussillon](/source/Languedoc-Roussillon), she took the silver medal over 3000 m.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/mg.htm Mediterranean Games]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 28 December 2011. ===Late career=== An 89th-place finish at the [1994 World Cross Country](/source/1994_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships) was a career low, but she improved the year after to come 19th in the [1995 World long race](/source/1995_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships). She also won her seventh (and last) French Cross Country Championship With women now competing over 5000 m at the outdoor world championships, she had to enter at the [1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships](/source/1995_IAAF_World_Indoor_Championships) to compete in her specialist 3000 m event and she managed eighth in the final. Sergent ran at the [2nd European Cross Country Championships](/source/1995_European_Cross_Country_Championships) in December and came sixth, helping the French women's team to third in the team rankings.[http://www.european-athletics.org/event-archive.html?id=3460 Event Result Database - European Cross Country Championships] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209012558/http://www.european-athletics.org/event-archive.html?id=3460 |date=9 February 2013 }}. [European Athletic Association](/source/European_Athletic_Association). Retrieved on 29 December 2011. She made her eleventh World Cross Country Championships appearance at the [1996 edition](/source/1996_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships) and finished 24th in the women's long race, ranking sixth with the French team. That year was the last of her athletics career and she brought it to an end with a win at the inaugural [Lille Half Marathon](/source/Lille_Half_Marathon) race, taking the title in a time of 1:11:21 hours.Civai, Franco & Lefeuvre, Thierry (6 September 2011). [https://www.arrs.run/HP_LilleHM.htm Lille Métropole Half Marathon]. ARRS. Retrieved on 29 December 2011. Following her retirement from competitive athletics in 1996, she is now a member of the [European Athletic Association](/source/European_Athletic_Association)'s cross country committee.[https://archive.today/20120729145113/http://www.european-athletics.com/general-news/european-athletics-committee-and-commission-members-named.html European Athletics Committee and Commission members named]. [European Athletics](/source/European_Athletics) (13 September 2011). Retrieved on 16 September 2011. ==National records== Over her career, she broke a number of [French record](/source/French_records_in_athletics) ranging from the [mile run](/source/mile_run) to the [10,000 metres](/source/10%2C000_metres). Her first national record mark came in 1985, when she ran a time of 8:52.32 minutes for the [3000 metres](/source/3000_metres). She improved this to 8:50.56 the following month and broke [Patricia Deneuville](/source/Patricia_Deneuville)'s French mile record a month after that (registering a time of 4:39.35 mins). In July 1986 she lopped three and a half seconds off her 3000 m mark, set a time of 5:39.00 mins for the 2000 m, then bettered [Joëlle De Brouwer](/source/Jo%C3%ABlle_De_Brouwer)'s [5000 metres](/source/5000_metres) record by almost twenty seconds, setting a new standard of 15:32.92 mins. Two further improvements over 3000 m and 5000 m came in 1988, with runs of 8:44.19 and 15:18.24 mins respectively. She also beat [Christine Loiseau](/source/Christine_Loiseau)'s record over 10,000 m that year. In 1990 she ran 15:16.44 mins for the 5000 m, which was to be her last national mark over that distance. Her run of 31:51.68 minutes at that year's European Championships made her the first Frenchwoman to complete the event in under 32 minutes. Although her 2000 m time is still the best set by a French athlete, all her records in other events were not long-standing: her 3000 m was beaten by [Marie-Pierre Duros](/source/Marie-Pierre_Duros) after a year, her 10,000 m mark was beaten by [Rosario Murcia](/source/Rosario_Murcia) after two years, while her 5000 m was broken after four years by Farida Fatès.[http://www.athle.com/asp.net/main.html/html.aspx?htmlid=869 Chronologie des records de France Cadets, Juniors et Seniors depuis 1983] {{in lang|fr}}. FFA/Christian Tharaud. Retrieved on 28 December 2011.[http://bases.athle.com/asp.net/liste.aspx?frmpostback=true&frmbase=records&frmmode=1&frmespace=0&frmexploitation=actuel&frmtype=RD&frmsoustype=&frmfamille=&frmepreuve=&frmannee=&frmcategorie=&frmsouscategorie=&frmsexe=&frmniveau=NA&frmligue=&frmdepartement=&frmclub=&frmposition=0 French Records]. [Fédération Française d'Athlétisme](/source/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Fran%C3%A7aise_d'Athl%C3%A9tisme). Retrieved on 28 December 2011. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{World Athletics|name=Annette Sergent-Palluy}} * {{FFA|new_id=326545|name=Annette Sergent-Petit|old_id=485149504554465347524653}} * {{Olympics.com|name=Annette Sergent-Palluy}} * {{Olympedia|name=Annette Sergent-Palluy}} * {{InterSportStats|3000003891|Annette Sergent-Palluy}} {{Footer IAAF World Cross Champions Women}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sergent, Annette}} Category:Living people Category:1962 births Category:Sportspeople from Chambéry Category:Athletes from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Category:French women middle-distance runners Category:French women long-distance runners Category:French women marathon runners Category:Olympic athletes for France Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Category:European Athletics Championships medalists Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for France Category:World Athletics Cross Country Championships winners Category:Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1993 Mediterranean Games Category:Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Category:French Athletics Championships winners Category:20th-century French sportswomen --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Annette Sergent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Sergent) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Sergent?action=history)). 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