Laurent Landi (born 18 October 1977) is a French-American artistic gymnastics coach and retired gymnast. He was formerly a coach at the

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until 2017, when he began working at the World Champions Centre as the Women's Team director as well as serving as the head coach to

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. Landi has previously coached world and Olympic champion

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and world champion

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Career

Landi was a member of the French national team in gymnastics. He trained at the Olympic Antibes Juan-les-Pins Club in

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. He placed 12th in the all-around and won the bronze medal on high bar at the 1994 Junior European Championships.

Coaching career

Following his competitive career, in 1999, Landi started coaching at his club in Antibes. Landi coached there until 2002, when he began working at the French National Gymnastics training center in

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. In 2004, he moved to

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, with his future wife, Cecile. In Oklahoma, Landi was a coach at the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy. Since 2007, he has worked at the

. Landi has worked with accomplished gymnasts such as

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, Samantha Ogden, and Sophia Lee. In 2017, Landi moved from WOGA to the World Champions Centre, where he is currently head coach to

Personal life

Landi lives in

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, with his wife, Cecile, a gymnastics coach and Olympian (1996), and daughter, Juliette Elvire Landi (born 2007), a competitive gymnast.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Landi, Laurent 1977 births Living people French male artistic gymnasts French people of Italian descent French emigrants to the United States American people of Italian descent American gymnastics coaches People from McKinney, Texas World Olympic Gymnastics Academy