Alison Camille Chantal Lepin (born 22 June 2000 in
Romorantin-Lanthenay
Romorantin-Lanthenay (), commonly known as Romorantin, is a commune and town in the Loir-et-Cher department, administrative region of Centre-Val de Loire, France.
It is the capital city of the natural region of Sologne.
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) is a French
artistic gymnast
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...
Lepin began gymnastics at the age of 9 at a club in
Romorantin
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after doing figure skating. At the age of 11, Alison joined Avoine Beaumont Gymnastics. In 2012, Lepin won the French 12 year old Championships, a title that allowed her to begin competing in elite gymnastics.
Career
Junior career
Lepin competed at the 2014 French National Championships and finished fifteenth in the all-around. She was selected to compete for the French national team for the first time in November 2014, for a friendly match against Italy and Mexico. Less than a year later, Lepin competed at both Massilia and Top Gym for France. She won gold on uneven bars at Top Gym.
Bern, Switzerland
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. She helped France win the team bronze medal along with
Marine Brevet
Marine Grace Brevet (born 23 November 1994) is a French former artistic gymnast. She was a member of the team that won a bronze medal at the 2016 European Championships. She was supposed to represent France at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but a di ...
,
Loan His
Loan Válerie His (born 10 April 1999) is a retired French artistic gymnast. She represented France at the 2016 Summer Olympics and helped the French team finish eleventh. She won a bronze medal with the French team at the 2016 European Champions ...
Oréane Lechenault
Oréane Caroline Marie Lechenault (born 31 August 2000) is a retired French female artistic gymnast. She finished fourth alongside her teammates at the 2016 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro, and she represented France at the 2016 S ...
. This was significant for France as they had not been on a European team podium since 2008. She then competed at the 2016 National Championships where she finished seventh in the all-around and fifth on vault. Although she was the favorite to win uneven bars, she fell in the final and finished last. She was not selected for the 2016 Olympic team.
Lepin competed at the 2017 European Championships, but she did not qualify for any finals. At the end of 2017, Lepin had back surgery that kept her out of competition for a year. She was take off the national team, so she left the national training center and began training in
Orléans
Orléans (,"Orleans" (US) and Throughout 2019, she competed domestically, but she only competed on the uneven bars and was not added back to the French national team. She retired from gymnastics in 2020.