(Montreal) Gymnast Victor Canuel recently updated his biography on Instagram. Since Sunday, we can find the title of junior world vice-champion at the vault table.
He won the silver medal on this apparatus this weekend in Turkey, just before seeing his teammate Cristella Brunetti-Burns take bronze on the beam, also at the World Junior Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Victor Canuel had taken sixth place in qualifying four days earlier. He moved up the standings in the final with a score of 14,016 points. A result that placed him just behind the Italian Tommaso Brugnami, gold medalist with 14,133 points. Hungarian Szilard Zavory finished third (13,883).
The Quebecer had won six medals, including gold on the vaulting table, at the Canada Games in February. At the world juniors, he finished 10th on floor, 46th on horizontal bar, 51st on rings, 61st on parallel bars and 74th on pommel horse.
Good performance for the 34th place in the eventing.
Ontarian Xavier Olasz was the highest ranked Canadian overall. He is 21st with 74,664 points. His best result was on high bar where he placed 30th with 12,433 points.
Canuel, Olasz and Matteo Bardana, also from Ontario, placed 13th in the team event, totaling 151,665 points. It was the Japanese who won the gold ahead of the Chinese and the Italians.
On the women’s side, Cristella Brunetti-Burns, Victoriane Charron and Zoé Tsaprailis finished fourth in the team competition with a cumulative 100,331 points. With a total of 104,230 points, the Japanese won, beating the representatives of the United States (102,198) and Italy (101,996).
Brunetti-Burns was able to recover a few days later. She walked the podium on the beam with a bronze medal around her neck, obtained thanks to her 12,600 points won in the grand final.
She also placed 11th on the vault table, 52nd on floor and 70th on uneven bars to finish 22nd overall.
For her part, Zoé Tsaprailisa finished fourth for a second time in Antalya in the vaulting table final, where she received a score of 12,966.
Her 10th, 16th, and 41st-place finishes on balance beam, floor, and uneven bars, respectively, took her to 16th place all around.
Finally, Victoriane Charron obtained the best Canadian performance in the eventing event by finishing 8th. She finished 6th on floor, 7th on the vault table and 10th on uneven bars, then 97th on beam.
It was only the second presentation of the world juniors in artistic gymnastics, which began in Hungary in 2019. At that time, Félix Dolci had finished fourth in the all around competition, in addition to being decorated with gold at the rings and silver at the end of the floor exercise.