Marine Petit (born 15 November 1992) 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 ...

and a member of the French National Gymnastics Team. She participated in the

2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 40th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar r ...

, the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

, and the

2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held at the Rotterdam Ahoy indoor sporting arena in the Netherlands from 16 to 24 October 2010. In this year's championships, there was a total of 73 participating federations with 615 gymnasts ...

. Petit competed at the

and helped the French team finish sixth in the team finals. Petit individually qualified for the individual all-around final where she placed sixteenth. For the

in Beijing, China, Petit was selected to be a member of the French team. Petit helped the French team to finish in seventh place overall in the team all-around final. She qualified to the individual all-around final at the Olympics and placed nineteenth in the final. After the Olympics, Petit continued her career in gymnastics at the

. In the team event, the French team had a weak competition and finished eleventh after the qualification day, not high enough to advance them to the finals day. Petit herself did not qualify for any individual finals as well either. Petit won the French all-around national championship title in 2011.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Petit, Marine 1992 births Living people French female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for France Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in gymnastics 21st-century French women