Cyril Tommasone

Cyril Tommasone
 Gymnast 
Personal information
Country represented  France
Born (1987-07-04) 4 July 1987
Villeurbanne
Height 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics

Cyril Tommasone (born 4 July 1987 in Villeurbanne) is a French artistic gymnast. [1] His strongest apparatus is the pommel horse and parallel bars. He is 5'7" (171 cm) tall and weighs 62 kg.[2]

Career

He started gymnastics at age 7 and trains at the Convention Gymnique de Lyon with Yann Cucherat, under coach, Anatoly Vorontsov. He has been a member of the France team since 2000 where he finished first in the Espoir Championships (Championnats de France Espoir). At the French Elite Championships (Championnats de France Elite) in France in 2010 in Albertville, he finished first in the competition on parallel bars and floor. At the 2010 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham he won a bronze medal with the French team. The following year, he won a silver medal at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo and silver medal at the 2011 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Berlin, both in the pommel horse.

He competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's artistic team all-around.

References

  1. "Cyril Tommasone". London2012.com. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
  2. "Cyril Tommasone". BBC. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
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