Gymnast Margaux Daveloose (18) stops with top sport

Margaux will start her top sports adventure in the summer of 2015 together with fellow club member Julie Vandamme. She makes her debut as a junior at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Gyor in 2017, where she can immediately qualify for the all-round final. At the Master Massilia that same year, she takes home the bronze medal for her floor exercise. In 2018 she will also participate in the Master Massilia, where she won silver in the bridge finals after a great competition and became 8th in the all-round classification. She and her teammates won the bronze medal here during the team final. That same year she takes part in her first European Championship in Glasgow. Together with her teammates they become 6th in the team final. She also won silver at the Belgian championship this year.

In 2019, Margaux will make her senior debut at the FIT Challenge, where she and her team won gold. A little later that year she is part of the Belgian delegation to the World Championship in Stuttgart, the competition where Team BELGYM, with a 10th place, assures our country of a team selection for the Olympic Games.

The girls competed at the International Gymnix in Canada in 2020. Together with her teammates, Margaux takes silver in the team final, individually she is 7th at the bridge. 2020 is also the year in which the Road to Tokyo starts, with numerous selection tests. Margaux finished third in the fourth selection test and thus made it to the second pre-selection in the route to the Olympic Games. In addition to the various selection tests, we will also see Margaux in action during the FIT Challenge in 2021. Here she qualified for the ground final, where she finished fifth. In the team final, Team BELGYM takes home the silver. In addition, we also saw Margaux in action at the European Championship in Basel in 2021.

Blood Sweat and tears

She wrote on Facebook: “14 years of gymnastics, 168 months of ups and downs, 728 weeks of blood, sweat and tears. But above all 5,110 days of enjoying what I love most. But in recent months I felt that it was getting harder and harder. I had to sacrifice so much to stay at my best, so I made one of the hardest decisions of my life and decided to give up gymnastics.”