| Marine Boyer | |
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 Boyer at the 2024 Olympic Games | |
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Full name |
Marine Clemence Boyer |
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Country represented |
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Born |
May 22 2000 |
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Years on National Team |
2014-present |
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Club |
Meaux Gymnastique |
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Coach(es) |
Patrick Andreani, Veronique Legras Snoeck |
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Current status |
Active |
Marine Boyer (born May 22 in Saint Benoit, La Reunion) is an elite French gymnast. She's a three-time Olympian, having competed in 2016 Rio de Janeiro, 2020 Tokyo, and 2024 Paris. She is the 2016 French National All-Around Champion. She represented France at the multiple European and World Championships, the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival, and helped them qualify a full team to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She's also a member of the French team that won bronze at the 2023 World Championships. Her best events are vault and balance beam.
Featured Gymnast for June 2019
Junior Career[]
2010-2013[]
Boyer won bronze in the all-around at the French National Championships in the spring and fifth in the all-around at the French National Cup in the fall. She returned to the French National Championships the following year, placing fifth in the all-around. She went on to win team gold at the Tournoi Combs-la-Ville and all-around gold at the French National Cup. Boyer won silver in the all-around at the French National Championships the following year, and bronze in the all-around at the French National Cup. In 2013, she placed seventh at the French National Championships.
2014-2015[]
Boyer won silver in the junior all-around at the French National Championships in the spring. She made her international debut at a friendly meet against gymnasts from Belgium and Romania, winning team bronze and placing seventh in the all-around. She was named to the junior French team for the European Championships, where she helped the team place seventh and individually finished thirteenth in the all-around. In the fall, she competed at Top Gym in Belgium, winning balance beam gold, vault silver, and placing fifth in the all-around.
Boyer competed at the French National Championships in the spring, winning balance beam gold and uneven bars silver. She competed at the Flanders International Team Challenge in Belgium, winning team silver and placing sixth in the all-around. In the summer, she competed at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Georgia, winning vault gold and placing sixth with her team and ninth in the all-around.
Senior Career[]
2016[]
Boyer made her senior debut at the City of Jesolo Trophy, placing fourth with her team and on balance beam. In April, she competed at the Olympic Test Event, helping France qualify a full team to the Olympics. In May, she competed at the World Cup in Varna, Bulgaria, winning gold on balance beam and placing fifth on floor and sixth on uneven bars. In June, she competed at her first senior European Championships, helping France to a team bronze medal and taking home an individual silver on balance beam. She went on to compete at the French National Championships, winning all-around and balance beam gold and placing sixth on uneven bars. In late June, she was named to the French team for the Olympics.[1]
Rio Olympics[]
France competed in the last subdivision of qualifications, starting on uneven bars. While France did not make the team final, Boyer qualified seventh to the balance beam final. She finished just shy of a medal, in fourth place.
2017[]
Boyer started off the season at the City of Jesolo Trophy in April, tying for silver on balance beam with Brazil's Flavia Saraiva and placing fourth with her team and twelfth in the all-around. Later that month, she took part in the European Championships in Romania, placing sixteenth in the all-around, but a fall in the balance beam final landed her in seventh place. In May, she competed at the French National Championships, winning all-around silver and gold on beam and floor.
In September, she competed at the Paris World Cup, winning silver on beam and placing fourth on floor. In October, she competed at the World Championships in Montreal, Canada, placing twenty-first in the all-around. In November, she won gold in the all-around at the Arthur Gander Memorial, and later competed at the Swiss Cup, but didn't advance past the second round. In December, she competed at the Toyota International, placing sixth on beam and seventh on floor.
2018[]
Boyer competed at the Doha World Cup in March. In the balance beam final, although she grabbed the beam to prevent a fall, she still scored high enough to win silver behind her teammate Mélanie de Jesus Dos Santos. She placed seventh on floor exercise. At the French Nationals in May, she placed fourth in the all-around after a fall on beam, and fourth on floor exercise. In June, she competed at the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain, winning team silver and balance beam gold. She went onto compete at the Sainté Gym Cup, winning team gold and placing seventh in the all-around. In August, she competed at the European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, where she helped France win team silver, a personal best for them, and individually won bronze on balance beam. She attended the Paris World Cup, winning the silver medal on the balance beam. She was then named to the French team for the World Championships in Doha, Qatar in late October, helping France to a fifth place finish. After Doha, she competed at the Cottbus World Cup in Germany in November, placing sixth on beam.
2019[]
Boyer competed at the Baku World Cup in March, qualifying to the balance beam and floor exercise finals. In the beam final, she initially tied for gold with Australia's Emma Nedov, but a tie breaker was induced, and Boyer was awarded the silver. She placed fifth on floor exercise. At the Doha World Cup the following weekend, she won bronze on balance beam and placed fifth on floor exercise.
In April, she competed at the European Championships in Szczecin, Poland, finishing eighth on floor exercise. At the Paris World Cup in September, she placed fourth on beam and won silver on floor. In October, she competed at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. She placed fifth with her team and helped France qualify a full team to the 2020 Olympics.
2020-2021[]
In 2020, Boyer competed at the Top 12 Series three in Match 4 — Meaux (A) vs Rouen (B). She also competed at the Coupe d’Hiver, placing third with Team Red.
Boyer competed at the 2021 Basel European Championships. She qualified into the all-around final, but withdrew from the final and was replaced with Sheyen Petit. She also made the balance beam final, where she finished sixth. She went on to compete at the Varna World Cup in late May, winning silver on beam. The following month, she competed at the French National Championships, winning all-around and uneven bars silver, and placing fifth on floor exercise. In mid-June, she was officially named to the French Olympic team.[2] At the end of June, she competed at the Flanders International Team Challenge in Belgium, winning team gold.
Tokyo Olympics[]
Boyer competed in the fourth subdivision, starting on balance beam. She helped France qualify to the team final, where they placed sixth.
2022[]
Boyer continued to compete after Tokyo. In early July, she competed at the Austrian Team Open, winning balance beam gold, team and all-around silver, vault and floor exercise bronze, and placing seventh on uneven bars. Later that month, she competed at the French National Championships, winning silver on floor exercise. In August, she competed at the European Championships in Munich, Germany, helping France place sixth in the team final. In September, she competed at the Paris World Cup, making the balance beam final. She overcame a missed connection in her routine to tie for first place, and then won the tie breaker with her higher execution score.
In late October, she competed at the World Championships in Liverpool. Mistakes dropped France down to eighth place in the team final. Individually, Boyer placed fourth on balance beam, just shy of the podium.
2023[]
Boyer began her season at the Baku World Cup in March, winning gold on floor exercise and silver on balance beam. In June, she competed at the Tel Aviv World Cup in Israel, winning gold on balance beam and placing fourth on floor exercise. At the European Championships, she placed sixth with her team. That fall, she won gold on balance beam at the Paris World Cup. At the World Championships in Belgium, she helped France win bronze in the team final, their first World team medal since 1950.
2024[]
Boyer began her season at the City of Jesolo Trophy in April, placing fifth with her team and twenty-fourth in the all-around. She later competed at the European Championships in Italy, winning team and balance beam bronze and placing eleventh in the all-around. In July, she was named to the French team for the 2024 Olympics.[3]
Paris Olympics[]
With France having won team bronze at the previous year's World Championships, expectations were high for this team to do well in Paris. They competed in the fourth subdivision, but were plagued with multiple falls and low scores on three of the four events. France placed eleventh in qualifications, and Boyer did not make any individual finals.
Medal Count[]
Floor Music[]
2013-2014 - "Kooza Dance" by Cirque du Soleil
2015 - "Anyámat Ne!" by Teki Lala
2016-2017 - “Asturias” by David Garrett
2018-2019 - "La Foule" by Edith Piaf