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

World Olympic Gymnastics Academy The World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) is a two-facility gymnastics club located in Frisco, Texas, Frisco and Plano, Texas, Plano. In 1994, WOGA was established by Yevgeny Marchenko (gymnast), Yevgeny Marchenko, a World Sports acrobatic ch ...

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

Antibes, France Antibes (, , ; ) is a seaside city in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department in Southeastern France. It is located on the French Riviera between Cannes and Nice; its cape, the Cap d'Antibes, along with Cap Ferrat in Saint-Jean-Ca ...

. 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

Marseille, France Marseille (; ; see below) is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, ...

. 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. In 2007, he and his wife began working at the

, where they coached 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

McKinney, Texas McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States. It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano, Texas, Plano and Frisco, Texas, Frisco. A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about ...

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

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