Marine Debauve (born 3 September 1988) is a French

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

who competed in the

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and

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. As the 2005 all-around European Champion, Debauve is also the first French female gymnast to win a major international all-around title. She was also the 2003 and 2005 French all-around national champion.

Gymnastics career

Debauve first became interested in gymnastics at the age of 4 and participated in her first international competition at the age of 11. In 2003, she won the all-around French championship and took part in her first

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. She represented her country at the

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finishing 6th in the team event. In the all-around final she finished in seventh place, the highest ranking ever achieved by a French gymnast at the Olympics. A year later she was all-around champion at the 2005 European Championships, becoming the first Frenchwoman to win a major international all-around title. She also won the silver medal on beam at the same European Championships. Although she initially retired in 2005 after winning the European Championships, Debauve returned to compete for France at the

. In the team final the French team finished in seventh place. Debauve currently lives in

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

and was coached by Yves Kieffer and Marjorie Heuls. After her gymnastic career, she decided to start a new sport, Tumbling. She did it for a year and half, and finished with a bronze medal at the World Championship in Metz, France.

World Cup Series

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Debauve, Marine 1988 births Sportspeople from Dijon French female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for France Living people Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for France Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Medalists at the Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships Mediterranean Games medalists in gymnastics European champions in gymnastics 21st-century French women