{"id":913219,"date":"2026-09-28T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913219\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:28:08","slug":"canadian-team-named-for-2026-artistic-gymnastics-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913219\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Team Named for 2026 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ottawa, ON (September 28, 2026) \u2013 Gymnastics Canada is pleased to announce the athletes selected to represent Canada at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, taking place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, from October 17\u201325.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Men\u2019s Artistic Gymnastics\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five Canadian athletes will compete in the men\u2019s competition: F\u00e9lix Dolci (QC), William \u00c9mard (QC), Ren\u00e9 Cournoyer (QC), Sam Zakutney (QC), and Jordan Carroll (SK), with Xavier Olasz (QC) joining the team as the travelling alternate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team will be supported by team coach Adrian Balan, coaches Kader Mecellem and Jean-S\u00e9bastien Tougas, integrated support team (IST) member Rachel Gauthier, and judges James Goulet and J\u00e9rome Boisteau.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women\u2019s Artistic Gymnastics\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five Canadian athletes will compete in the women\u2019s competition: Ellie Black (NS), Gabrielle Black (NS), Coralie Demers (QC), Lia-Monica Fontaine (QC), and Lia Redick (ON), with Zoe Tsaprailis (QC) joining the team as the travelling alternate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team will be supported by team coaches Claude Pelletier and Olena Yermolchuk, personal coaches Amanda Kikuchi, David Kikuchi, and Pierre Priv\u00e9, integrated support team (IST) members Cyrille Brindamour and Martha Purdy, and judges Tracey Anderson and Sheri Wilson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the latest event information, visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gymnastics.sport\/site\/events\/detail.php?id=17247&amp;type=sport#loaded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">World Gymnastics Competition Page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa, ON (September 28, 2026) \u2013 Gymnastics Canada is pleased to announce the athletes selected to represent Canada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-913219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}