Léo Saladino
French artistic gymnast (born 2002)
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Léo Saladino (born 2 August 2002) is a French artistic gymnast. He is the 2025 European all-around silver medalist and the 2024 French all-around champion. He also won a team bronze medal at the 2022 Mediterranean Games.
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| Born | 2 August 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Training location | Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Pôle Antibes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | INSEP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach | Marc Touchais | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gymnastics career
Saladino began gymnastics at the age of five.[2]
Junior
In 2018, Saladino won a pommel horse gold medal at the Gymnasiade and placed seventh with the French team at the Junior European Championships.[3][4]
Saladino placed third in the junior all-around at the 2019 French Championships.[5] As a result, he was selected to compete at the 2019 Junior World Championships and placed 22nd in the all-around.[6] He also advanced into the vault final, finishing seventh.[7] He then competed with the French team that placed fifth at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival. Individually, he advanced to the all-around final and finished seventh. Additionally, he placed eighth in the floor exercise and pommel horse finals.[8]
Senior
At the 2022 French Championships, Saladino won the all-around silver medal.[9] He then competed with the French team that placed fifth at the 2022 European Championships.[10] At the 2022 Mediterranean Games, he helped France win the team bronze medal.[11]
Saladino won the all-around silver medal at the 2023 French Championships.[9] He then helped the French team finish seventh at the 2023 European Championships, and he placed 16th in the all-around final.[12] He won a silver medal on the vault at the Paris World Challenge Cup behind Harry Hepworth.[13]
Saladino won the all-around title at the 2024 French Championships,[9] where he also won silver medals in the rings and parallel bars.[14] At the 2024 European Championships, he placed fifth in the floor exercise final.[15] He competed at the 2024 Swiss Cup Zürich alongside Morgane Osyssek, and they became the first French pair to win the Swiss Cup.[16]
At the 2025 European Championships, Saladino finished 18th in the all-around qualifications after multiple mistakes. He went on to win the all-around silver medal behind Turkey's Adem Asil.[17] He became the first French gymnast to win an all-around medal at the European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships since Dimitri Karbanenko won silver in 1998. He also helped the French team place fifth.[18]
