France at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

France at the
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
France at the; World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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Medals	Gold25Silver30Bronze27Total82

Last updated August 12, 2025

France has been participating at the World Championships in artistic gymnastics since its inception in 1903.^[1]^[2] Their men's team won the first ever team gold medal.^[3] Women first competed at the World Championships in 1934; the French women's team placed fourth.^[4] They would win their first team medal, a silver, in 1950.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Year	Event
Gold	Allégre, Joseph Bollet, Georges Charmoille, Daube, Georges Dejaeghère, Jules Lecoutre, Joseph Lux, Joseph Martinez, Pierre Payssé	1903 Antwerp	Men's team
Gold	Joseph Martinez		Men's all-around
Silver	Joseph Lux		Men's all-around
Gold	Georges Dejaeghère		Men's pommel horse
Gold	Joseph Lux		Men's pommel horse
Gold	Joseph Martinez		Men's rings
Silver	Joseph Lux		Men's rings
Gold	Joseph Martinez		Men's parallel bars
Gold	Joseph Martinez		Men's horizontal bar
Silver	Jules Lecoutre
Silver	Pierre Payssé
Gold	Georges Dejagere, Lucien Démanet, Marcel Lalu, Daniel Lavielle, Joseph Martinez, Pierre Payssé	1905 Bordeaux	Men's team
Gold	Marcel Lalu		Men's all-around
Silver	Daniel Lavielle
Bronze	Lucien Démanet
Gold	Georges Dejaeghère		Men's pommel horse
Silver	Marcel Lalue
Bronze	Daniel Lavielle
Gold	Joseph Martinez		Men's parallel bars
Gold	Marcel Lalue
Bronze	Pierre Payssé
Gold	Marcel Lalue		Men's horizontal bar
Silver	Joseph Martinez
Bronze	Pierre Payssé
Bronze	Lucien Démanet
Silver	Joseph Castiglioni, Georges Charmoille, Joseph Lux, Jules Rolland, Louis Ségura, François Vidal	1907 Prague	Men's team
Silver	Jules Rolland		Men's all-around
Silver	Jules Rolland		Men's pommel horse
Gold	Joseph Lux		Men's parallel bars
Bronze	Louis Ségura		Men's parallel bars
Gold	Georges Charmoilles		Men's horizontal bar
Bronze	Jules Rolland		Men's horizontal bar
Gold	Joseph Castiglioni, Auguste Castille, Armand Coidelle, Joseph Martinez, Louis Ségura, Marcos Torrès	1909 Luxembourg	Men's team
Gold	Marco Torrès		Men's all-around
Bronze	Armand Coidelle		Men's all-around
Gold	Marco Torrès		Men's rings
Gold	Joseph Martinez		Men's parallel bars
Silver	Marco Torrès
Silver	Auguste Castille
Gold	Joseph Martinez		Men's horizontal bar
Silver	Antoine Costa, Marco Torrès, Jules Labéeu, M. Maucerier, Jules Lecoutre, Dominique Follacci	1911 Turin	Men's team
Silver	Antoine Costa		Men's rings
Silver	Dominique Follacci		Men's rings
Silver	Dominique Follacci		Men's parallel bars
Bronze	Jules Labéeu
Bronze	Antoine Costa
Bronze	Jules Lecoutre
Silver	Marco Torrès		Men's horizontal bar
Silver	N. Aubry, Ben Sadoun, Laurent Grech, Marquelet, Louis Ségura, Marco Torrès	1913 Paris	Men's team
Gold	Marco Torrès		Men's all-around
Silver	Marco Torrès		Men's pommel horse
Silver	N. Aubry		Men's pommel horse
Gold	Laurent Grech		Men's rings
Gold	Marco Torrès		Men's rings
Gold	Marco Torrès		Men's horizontal bar
Bronze	Jean Gounot, Louis Marty, Jacques Moser, Robert Morin, Alexandre Pannetier, Marco Torrès	1922 Ljubljana	Men's team
Bronze	François Gangloff, Marcel Gorisse, Jean Gounot, Ernest Heeb, Alfred Krauss, Armand Solbach	1926 Lyon	Men's team
Silver	Louis Castelli, Jean Chanteur, Jean Gounot, Marcel Itten, Alfred Krauss, Georges Leroux, Maurice Rousseau, Amand Solbach	1930 Luxembourg	Men's team
Bronze	Alfred Krauss		Men's floor exercise
Silver	Alfred Krauss		Men's parallel bars
Bronze	Alphonse Anger, Raymond Badin, Marcel de Wolf, Raymond Dot, Lucien Masset, Michel Mathiot, Gilbert Pruvost, André Weingand	1950 Basel	Men's team
Silver	Ginette Durand, Colette Hué, Madeleine Jouffroy, Alexandra Lemoine, Liliane Montagne, Christine Palau, Irène Pittelioen, Jeanette Vogelbacher		Women's team
Bronze	Raymond Dot		Men's floor exercise
Bronze	Alexandra Lemoine		Women's vault
Bronze	Raymond Dot		Men's parallel bars
Silver	Philippe Vatuone	1983 Budapest	Men's horizontal bar
Silver	Laurent Barbiéri	1985 Montreal	Men's vault
Silver	Éric Poujade	1994 Brisbane	Men's pommel horse
Bronze	Ludivine Furnon	1995 Sabae	Women's floor exercise
Bronze	Isabelle Severino	1996 San Juan	Women's uneven bars
Silver	Dimitri Karbanenko	1997 Lausanne	Men's floor exercise
Silver	Éric Poujade	1997 Lausanne	Men's pommel horse
Bronze	Yann Cucherat	2005 Melbourne	Men's parallel bars
Silver	Yann Cucherat	2005 Melbourne	Men's horizontal bar
Bronze	Cassy Vericel	2007 Stuttgart	Women's floor exercise
Bronze	Youna Dufournet	2009 London	Women's vault
Gold	Thomas Bouhail	2010 Rotterdam	Men's vault
Silver	Cyril Tommasone	2011 Tokyo	Men's pommel horse
Bronze	Cyril Tommasone	2014 Nanning	Men's pommel horse
Bronze	Samir Aït Saïd	2019 Stuttgart	Men's rings
Bronze	Coline Devillard	2022 Liverpool	Women's vault
Bronze	Marine Boyer, Lorette Charpy, Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos, Coline Devillard, Morgane Osyssek, Djenna Laroui	2023 Antwerp	Women's team

Medal tables

By gender

By event


Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Men's horizontal bar	5	6	3	14
Men's parallel bars	5	4	7	16
Men's individual all-around	4	3	2	9
Men's rings	4	3	1	8
Men's pommel horse	3	7	2	12
Men's team	3	4	3	10
Men's vault	1	1	0	2
Men's floor exercise	0	1	2	3
Women's team	0	1	1	2
Women's vault	0	0	3	3
Women's floor exercise	0	0	2	2
Women's uneven bars	0	0	1	1
Women's balance beam	0	0	0	0
Women's individual all-around	0	0	0	0

Junior World medalists

Medal	Name	Year	Event
Bronze	Ming van Eijken	2023 Antalya	Girls' vault

References

↑ Huguenin, Andre. 100 Years of the International Gymnastics Federation: 1881-1981 (PDF). Translated by Unger, Beatrice. International Gymnastics Federation. p. 76.
↑ Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (2005). 125th Anniversary - The story goes on... FIG. p. 61.
↑ "Men's and Women's World Championships Results & Medalists". USA Gymnastics .
↑ Huguenin, Andre. 110e Anniversaire: Objectif An 2000 (PDF) (in French, German, and English). International Gymnastics Federation.

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[1] Huguenin, Andre. 100 Years of the International Gymnastics Federation: 1881-1981 (PDF). Translated by Unger, Beatrice. International Gymnastics Federation. p. 76.

[2] Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (2005). 125th Anniversary - The story goes on... FIG. p. 61.

[3] "Men's and Women's World Championships Results & Medalists". USA Gymnastics .

[4] Huguenin, Andre. 110e Anniversaire: Objectif An 2000 (PDF) (in French, German, and English). International Gymnastics Federation.

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