French-Algerian gymnast wins gold at World Cup

The 18-year-old gymnast, Kaylia Nemour has won a new gold medal on uneven bars at the 2025 Gymnastics World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as reported by TSA Algérie on June 21st.

Her routine earned her a massive score of 14.700 with a difficulty score of 6.3. She adds to her collection of 8 gold medals, the most recent won at the Olympics in Paris last year. 

The French-born gymnast wowed the world with her 30-second bar routine at the Paris Olympics last year, but the gold medal did not go to her home country, instead she waved the Algerian flag on the podium. 

After a series of disputes with the French gymnastics federation and the possibility of not being allowed to compete, the gymnast opted to utilize her Algerian citizenship to compete under a different flag. Her father had an Algerian passport as his parents had been born in the country, and in an interview Nemour stated, “I wanted a solution, to avoid spending another year without being allowed to compete.”

She was welcomed by Algerian gymnastics officials as an opportunity to promote the sport in Algeria, and across Africa as a whole. After her first event competing under the Algerian flag at the 2023 World Championships, the gymnast said she received an outpouring of messages from media outlets, and that there “was so much support from Algeria that I’m really happy to represent the country.” Nemour certainly did that as she was the first African gymnast to win an Olympic medal, and she shows no signs of slowing down with her World Cup success.

TSA Algérie, Algeria Press Service, The New York Times, Maghrebi.org