28. Mai 2023  
Avignon, FRA  
Artistic Gymnastics

French Host Victory in Avignon

The gymnastics juniors of the Equipe Tricolor landed a French host victory in Avignon and defeated the co-favored U18 representation from Great Britain (305.259) with 309.350 points. Team Switzerland was already clearly behind with 297.750 points, but with a narrow margin of one point they were able to relegate the German junior selection to 4th place. Fifth place went to the young gymnasts from Italy (294.900), who - in a different line-up for the JWCh in Antalya - had won bronze there as the best European junior team behind Japan and China. The French were fifth there, Germany's juniors eighth at the junior world championships a month ago ...