Cécile Canqueteau-Landi (born October 3, 1979) is a French gymnastics coach and former artistic gymnast. She competed at the

1996 Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

and currently coaches at

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in Spring, Texas. She coached from 2007 to 2017 at the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy.

Early years

Canqueteau was born on October 3, 1979, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. In the fall of 1988, she started at École Sainte-Anne. In 1990, she resumed secondary education at C.E.S. Roy D'Espagne until 1995. Later, Canqueteau finished at the Lycée-Collège Honoré Daumier. She enrolled at Aix-Marseille University, which was then the University of the Mediterranean, but left after one year of study.

Gymnastics career

Canqueteau started gymnastics at the age of five, and at nine years old she moved to Marseille to enter the national center. She trained at the Club Gymnastique Saint-Giniez, a well-known gymnastics club in the Canton of Marseille – Saint-Giniez, which has since been disbanded. Canqueteau trained at this club for the whole of her gymnastics career. Canqueteau's first major international competition was the

1994 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 1994 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Brisbane, Australia, from 19–24 April 1994. Only the all-around and apparatus events were contested at this meet. A team World Championships meet was held in Dortmund, Germany ...

in Dortmund, Germany. This was a team-only worlds, so there were no all-around or event finals to qualify for. However, in the 1995 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Sabae, Japan, she finished 39th in the all-around in the qualification round, but didn't make the all-around final due to the three-per-country rule at the time. She was later selected for the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

and competed in the qualification round, finishing in 8th place for France. She competed at another world and European championships in 1997–1998 and retired from Elite gymnastics in 1999. She competed for her club at nationals until 2002.

Coaching career

After she left university, Canqueteau started coaching at the French National Training Center from 2001 to 2004. Following her four-year stint for the French National Team, Canqueteau moved to Norman, Oklahoma, United States, with then-boyfriend Laurent Landi in August 2004 and started coaching at Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy. In June 2007, after under three years of coaching at the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy, both she and husband, Laurent, moved to Texas to coach at the renowned World Olympic Gymnastics Academy. At WOGA, Canqueteau-Landi served as the personal coach to Alyssa Baumann, Briley Casanova, Sophia Lee, and Samantha Ogden, and has also worked extensively with Katelyn Ohashi, Madison Kocian and various other WOGA alumni. Many of her athletes have been full-ride scholarship recipients, state, regional, and national champions. In October 2017, Canqueteau-Landi joined the coaching staff at

, where she and husband

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are personal coaches to Simone Biles, and where she is assistant head coach of the girls' competitive program. In April of 2024, she was named co-head coach of the University of Georgia’s gymnastics team, alongside fellow co-head coach Ryan Roberts.

Personal life

Canqueteau married boyfriend and ex-French National Team member, Laurent Landi, on August 20, 2005, at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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References

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