COURNOYER Rene

Canada

Artistic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 23 Apr 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Youth Olympian

Height (m/ft): 1.65/5'4''

Place of birth: REPENTIGNY, QC

Birth Country:

Canada

Place of residence : REPENTIGNY, QC

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Gymnastics	Men's All-Around
	Men's Floor Exercise
	Men's Pommel Horse
	Men's Rings
	Men's Vault
	Men's Parallel Bars
	Men's Horizontal Bar

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Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	FX	VT	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA
2014	Nanjing, CHN	29	6	7	27	36	18	19

World Championships

Year	Location	FX	VT	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	77	-	91	53	106	58	43	17
2018	Doha, QAT	56	-	28	60	91	59	27	18
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	93	23	-	31	-	37	-	-
2015	Glasgow, GBR	57	-	64	76	55	81	45	15

Pan American Games

Year	Location	FX	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2019	Lima, PER	30	5	15	10	6	4	3

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	FX	VT	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2018	Lima, PER	9	10	8	8	6	9	2	5

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	AA
2020/2021	1 x 10th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
10	2020/2021	All-Around	Milwaukee, WI, USA	78.298

Legend
FX - Floor Excercise, VT - Vault, HB - Horizontal Bar, PB - Parallel Bars, PH - Pommel Horse, SR - Rings, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Hobbies:

Reading, hiking, kayaking. (olympic.ca, 01 Nov 2018)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Education:

Physiotherapy - University of Montreal, Canada

Languages spoken:

English, French

Club name:

Club Gymnika [Repentigny, QC, CAN]

Coach:

Ed Van Hoof [national], GBR; Jean-Sebastien Tougas [personal], CAN

Debut:

2015 for Canada (gymcan.org, 01 Nov 2015)

Injuries:

During his first event at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, he pulled an abdominal muscle. He competed on the remaining five apparatuses, but was unable to reach the final. (International Gymnast magazine, December 2019; usagym.org, 26 Oct 2018)

National team:

2015 [senior] (gymcan.org, 27 Mar 2020)

Start:

He took up gymnastics at age seven. (olympic.ca, 31 May 2014)

Reason:

He was inspired to take up the sport because he wanted to do acrobatics. (olympic.ca, 31 May 2014)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (plus.lapresse.ca, 25 May 2017)

Hero:

Canadian artistic gymnast Kyle Shewfelt. (gymqc.ca, 01 Jan 2017)

Ritual:

He exchanges shirts with athletes from other countries when he competes. (gymcan.org, 01 Nov 2015)

Philosophy:

"What is worth doing is worth doing well." (olympic.ca, 01 Nov 2018)

Award:

He was named Gymnastics Canada's Senior Male Athlete of the Year in both 2017 and 2018. (gymcan.org, 03 Feb 2018; intlgymnast.com, 05 Feb 2018; Gymnastics Canada 2018-2019 Annual Report)

General Interest

General
MIXED EMOTIONS
He says he felt both sorrow and satisfaction at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, due to Canada missing out on a spot in the team event at the 2020 Olympic Games, while he secured an individual spot for the Games. "It was devastating to realise that we failed to qualify the team. For a whole day I felt the disappointment with the rest of my teammates. When I learned that I qualified individually, I had truly mixed feelings. On one hand I was ecstatic, but it didn't happen the way I hoped. I couldn't share the victory with my teammates because of our recent defeat. It's only after the world championships that I could appreciate my Olympic qualification." (International Gymnast magazine, December 2019)

CHRISTMAS COLLECTOR
He collects Christmas tree ornaments from his worldwide travels. "Every year, when it comes time to put up the Christmas tree, I relive my experiences from every ornament I put on the tree. It's pretty cool now. Our [family] tree is completely filled with ornaments from all over the world." (International Gymnast magazine, December 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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