Marine Boyer


Marine Clemence Boyer is a French female artistic gymnast, representing her nation in international competitions as a member of the national team. 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.
Boyer was also selected to compete for France at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. There, she finished eleventh with her compatriots Marine Brevet, Louise Vanhille, Oréane Lechenault, and Loan His in the team all-around, and then attained a fourth-place score 14.600 in the balance beam exercise, slipping her off the podium by just a tiny fraction after her layout was discredited.

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.
At the 2016 European Championships, she won the silver medal on beam with a score of 14.600, 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.
At the age of sixteen, she competed at the 2016 Olympic Games with the goal of reaching a final. 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.

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 after the favored Russian team had three falls. Ultimately, the French team won the silver medal in the final behind Russia and ahead of the Netherlands. With a total of 161.131 points, the achieved the best result in French gymnastics history. Individually, Boyer qualified for the beam final in fifth place. 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. The French women's team had not reached a world final since the 2008 Olympic Games. Marine Boyer and her teammates achieved one of the best French results in history by finishing in fifth.

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.

Competitive history

Junior

Senior