Marine Boyer
Marine Clemence Boyer (French: [bwa.je], born 22 May 2000) is a French female artistic gymnast, representing her nation in international competitions as a member of the national team.[1] She has collected a total of two medals, a silver in the women's balance beam and a bronze in the team all-around, at the 2016 European Championships.[2][3][4]
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| Full name | Marine Clemence Boyer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 May 2000 Saint-Benoît, Réunion, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2011–present (FRA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Meaux Gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | INSEP | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Nellu Pop, Martine Georges, Cédric Guille | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Hong Ma, Jian Fu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Boyer represented France at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro[5] and the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Early life
Marine Clemence Boyer was born on 22 May 2000 in Saint-Benoît, Réunion. Boyer began gymnastics at the Melun club. When she was eight, she began training at the Meaux Gymnastics club which she still represents at domestic competitions. She left in 2014 to train at INSEP where she trained with great French gymnasts like Youna Dufournet and Marine Brevet. At INSEP, she was first coached by Dimitru Pop, Jian Fu and Hong Ma Wang, then in January 2018, the Chinese couple was replaced by Martine Georges and Cédric Guille.
Gymnastics career
Marine Boyer won the gold medal on vault at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi.[6]
At the 2016 European Championships, she won the silver medal on beam with a score of 14.600,[7] behind Aliya Mustafina and ahead of Catalina Ponor. She also won a team bronze medal with Marine Brevet, Loan His, Oréane Lechenault, and Alison Lepin.[8]
At the age of sixteen, she competed at the 2016 Olympic Games with the goal of reaching a final.[9] She made it into the balance beam final where she finished fourth with a score of 14.600, not far from bronze medalist Simone Biles who scored 14.733.[10][11]
2018
At the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, she won the beam title and the team silver medal.
In August, she competed in the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow where the French team finished first in the qualification round[12] after the favored Russian team had three falls.[13] Ultimately, the French team won the silver medal in the final behind Russia and ahead of the Netherlands.[13] With a total of 161.131 points, the achieved the best result in French gymnastics history.[13] Individually, Boyer qualified for the beam final in fifth place.[12] In the final, she won the bronze medal.
During the 2018 World Championships, she qualified for the team final, but she narrowly missed qualifying to the beam final.[14] The French women's team had not reached a world final since the 2008 Olympic Games.[14] Marine Boyer and her teammates achieved one of the best French results in history by finishing in fifth.[15]
2019
On September 3 Boyer was named to the team to compete at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany alongside Lorette Charpy, Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos, Coline Devillard, and Aline Friess.[16]
2021
On June 14 Boyer was selected to represent France at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos, Aline Friess, and Carolann Héduit.[17] At the Olympics, Boyer helped France qualify to the team final where they finished sixth.[18]
Competitive history
Junior
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2010 | National Championships |  | |||||
| French National Cup | 5 | ||||||
| 2011 | National Championships | 5 | |||||
| Tournoi Combs-la-Ville |  | ||||||
| French National Cup | | ||||||
| 2012 | National Championships |  | |||||
| French National Cup | | ||||||
| 2013 | National Championships | 7 | |||||
| 2014 | National Championships | | |||||
| BEL-FRA-ROU Friendly | | 7 | |||||
| European Championships | 7 | 13 | |||||
| Top Gym | 5 | | | ||||
| 2015 | National Championships | | | ||||
| European Youth Olympic Festival | 6 | 9 | |
Senior
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | City of Jesolo Trophy | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Olympic Test Event | 4 | ||||||
| Varna World Cup | 6 | | 5 | ||||
| European Championships | | | |||||
| National Championships | | 6 | | ||||
| Olympic Games | 4 | ||||||
| 2017 | City of Jesolo Trophy | 4 | 12 | | |||
| European Championships | 16 | 7 | |||||
| National Championships | | | | ||||
| Paris World Cup | | 4 | |||||
| World Championships | 21 | ||||||
| Arthur Gander Memorial | | ||||||
| Toyota International | 6 | 7 | |||||
| 2018 | Doha World Cup | | 7 | ||||
| National Championships | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Mediterranean Games | | | |||||
| Sainté Gym Cup | | 7 | |||||
| European Championships | | | |||||
| Paris World Cup | | ||||||
| World Championships | 5 | ||||||
| Cottbus World Cup | 6 | ||||||
| 2019 | Baku World Cup | | 5 | ||||
| Doha World Cup | | 5 | |||||
| European Championships | 8 | ||||||
| Paris Challenge Cup | | ||||||
| World Championships | 5 | ||||||
| 2021 | |||||||
| European Championships | WD | 6 | |||||
| Varna Challenge Cup | | ||||||
| FIT Challenge | | ||||||
| Olympic Games | 6 |
References
- "Marine Boyer" (in French). French Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- "Gymnastique: du bronze solide pour la France à l'Euro dames avant les JO" [Gymnastics: A solid bronze for the French women at the Euros before the Olympics] (in French). Le Parisien. 4 June 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- Turner, Amanda (5 June 2016). "Steingruber, Ilyankova Win Twice As Europeans End". International Gymnast Magazine. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- "Gymnastique: Marine Boyer, une petite sensation française en argent" [Gymnastics: Marine Boyer, a miniature French sensation, wins the silver] (in French). L'Express. 5 June 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- "Marine Boyer". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- "FOJE - finales par agrès : Marine Boyer en Or !!" [EYOF - Apparatus Finals : Marine Boyer with Gold !!]. Fédération Française de Gymnastique (in French). 31 July 2015. Archived from the original on 3 August 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- "Championnat d'Europe (Femmes) Médaille d'argent pour Marine Boyer à la poutre" [European Championships (Women) Silver Medal for Marine Boyer on Beam]. L’Équipe (in French). 5 June 2016. Archived from the original on 29 September 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- "Championnats d'Europe de gymnastique : la France en bronze" [European Gymnastics Championships : France wins Bronze]. L’Équipe (in French). 4 June 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- Callier, Cédric (6 August 2016). "MARINE BOYER, 16 ANS ET DES AMBITIONS À REVENDRE" [Marine Boyer, 16 Years Old and Ambitious]. Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- Mosnier, Martin (15 August 2016). "JO RIO 2016 - Simone Biles rate l'or, Marine Boyer le podium" [OG Rio 2016 - Simone Biles Misses the Gold, Marine Boyer the Podium]. Eurosport (in French). Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- Callier, Cédric (16 August 2016). "MARINE BOYER À LA HAUTEUR DE SES AMBITIONS" [Marine Boyer at the Height of her Ambitions]. Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- "Championnats d'Europe GAF (senior) : la France termine première des qualifications et se hisse en finale par équipes" [WAG European Championships (Senior) : France Finishes First in Qualifications and Qualifies for Team Finals]. Gym and News (in French). 2 August 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- "Championnats d'Europe : l'équipe de France féminine prend l'argent" [European Championships : the French Women's Team Takes Silver]. L’Équipe (in French). 4 August 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- "Les Françaises en finale" [The French Women in the Final]. L’Équipe (in French). 28 October 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- "Simone Biles titrée par équipes avec les Américaines" [Simone Biles Wins Team Title with the Americans]. L’Équipe (in French). 30 October 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- "GAM/GAF - Championnats Du Monde 2019 : La Composition De L'équipe De France Dévoilée". Fédération Française Gym (in French). September 3, 2019.
- "GAF - La Composition De L'équipe De France Olympique Féminine Dévoilée". French Gymnastics Federation.
- "Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team Final Results" (PDF). Olympics.com. 27 July 2021.
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