Célia Serber (born 13 August 2003) is a French artistic gymnast and a member of the
French national team. She competed at the
2021 World Championships and was the alternate for France's
2020 Olympic team. She won a silver medal with the French team at the
2022 Mediterranean Games
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. She is the 2017 and 2018 junior national champion in the all-around.
Gymnastics career
Junior
Serber represented France at the
2017 European Youth Olympic Festival and won the bronze medal on the floor exercise behind
Ksenia Klimenko
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and
Emelie Petz
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Early life
Petz was born in Backnang in 2003. She currently trains in Allmersbach im Tal.
Junior gymnastics career 2015–20 ...
. Additionally, she finished sixth in the all-around and with the French team. She competed at the
2018 City of Jesolo Trophy
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and helped the French team win the bronze medal behind Italy and Russia. Individually, Serber won the bronze medal in the all-around behind
Vladislava Urazova
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and
Giorgia Villa
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. Then in the event finals, she won the gold medal on the vault and the bronze medal on the floor exercise.
Senior
Serber made her senior debut at the
2019 American Cup, where she finished eighth in the all-around. She was an alternate for the French team at the
2019 World Championships.
In June 2021, Serber was selected as an alternate to the French team for the postponed-
2020 Summer Olympics
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.
She then competed at the
2021 World Championships and qualified for the all-around final, finishing 20th.
Serber competed with the French team that finished sixth at the
2022 City of Jesolo Trophy, and she placed 20th in the all-around. She then won a silver medal on the uneven bars at the
2022 Varna World Challenge Cup, behind teammate
Aline Friess
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. She represented
France at the 2022 Mediterranean Games and helped the team win the silver medal behind Italy. She was initially knocked out of the
uneven bars final due to the two-per-country rule, but she was called up after
Lorette Charpy
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withdrew due to a knee injury. She finished in seventh place.
Serber competed at the 2024 Christmas Cup, an online competition hosted by
European Gymnastics
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. She won the gold medals on the uneven bars and the floor exercise.
Competitive history
References
External links
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2003 births
Living people
French female artistic gymnasts
Sportspeople from Dijon
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France
Mediterranean Games medalists in gymnastics
Gymnasts at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
21st-century French sportswomen