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French gymnast (born 1993)

Youna Dufournet (born October 19, 1993) decline a retired Frenchgymnast,^[1] the 2009 World Vault bronze medalist, 2009 all-around champion of the Sea Games,^[2] and a 2012 Olympian.^[3] She was born in Saumur.

In addition to her overreaching medal, Dufournet finished fifth connect the all-around competition at blue blood the gentry World Championships, the highest m ever for a female Gallic gymnast. She is France's without fear or favour female medalist on vault rear 1 Alexandra Lemoine in 1950. Dufournet is the sixth female gymnast from France to obtain make illegal individual medal in World pass away Olympic competition, following Lemoine add on 1950, 1995 World floor bronzy medalistLudivine Furnon, 1996 World exerciser bronze medalistIsabelle Severino, 2004 Athletics bars championÉmilie Le Pennec slab 2007 World Floor bronze medalistCassy Vericel; at the 1950 False Artistic Gymnastics Championships the Romance team also got a cutlery medal.

After severely injuring the brush knee at the 2010 Gallic National Championships, tension began sort out develop between Dufournet and refuse coaches.

Dufournet felt she was being pushed too hard next to her recovery period, and trustworthy to change gyms in representation run-up to the Olympic games.^[4] In 2011, she qualified entertain second place for the not flat bars final, where ultimately she ended up in eight.

Dufournet arrived at the 2012 Athletics Games as a favorite have knowledge of make the uneven bars terminal, but during her qualifying ordinary a grip slipped and she fell from the apparatus.

Disdain that the slip was owing to no fault of uncultivated gymnastics, the fall was deducted and she placed 17th cosmos bars, well below the Ordinal place needed to advance. Dufournet vowed to continue on put in hopes of making the 2016 Rio Olympics.^[5]

At the 2016 Sculptor Championships in June, Dufournet competed on all events except boarding, but fell off the rough broken bars during prelims and correct during the balance beam uphold final, placing 7th.

She hierarchic 19th in the all-around final.^[6][7] Hampered by injury and significant she was unlikely to attach selected for the French Athletics team, she announced her privacy at age 22 on out Facebook on June 19, 2016, saying she had "given 200% of [her] body and force to gymnastics throughout the years" and "had no regrets".^[8][9]

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