William Émard


William Émard is a Canadian artistic gymnast. He represented 2024 Summer Olympics|Canada at the 2024 Olympic Games]. At the 2021 World [Artistic Gymnastics Championships|2021 World Championships], he finished eighth in the all-around final, marking the best result for a Canadian male gymnast in World Championship history.

Senior career

2018

Émard joined the senior Canada men's national [artistic gymnastics team|Canadian national team] in 2018. However, his early career was met with adversity in injury form. At the 2018 [Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships|2018 Pacific Rim Championships] he injured himself during warm up and then spent several months in recovery for a knee injury and a labrum tear in the shoulder.

2019–2020

Émard competed at the 2019 FIG [Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series|Paris Challenge Cup] in September where he qualified to the event finals on floor exercise, rings, and vault. The following month he competed at the 2019 World Championships where he helped Canada finish 17th as a team during qualifications. Throughout 2019 and 2020 Émard had been suffering from a knee injury that kept him limited in his training.

2021

Émard's first International success came in the 2021 FIG Artistic [Gymnastics World Cup series] where he competed at Koper and Mersin. In Koper he claimed the silver on floor exercise and in Mersin he won bronze of floor exercise, silver on rings, and gold on vault. In October he competed at the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, qualifying 11th in the all-around, 6th on rings, and 8th on vault. He placed 8th in
the all-around final and 7th on rings.

2022

Émard competed at the 2022 World Championships where he helped the Canadian team finish 10th during qualifications.

2023

Émard competed at the 2023 [Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships|2023 Pan American Championships]. On the first day of competition he helped the Canadian team qualify to the team final. Additionally he won silver on rings, which was the first Pan American Championships medal won by a Canadian on the apparatus. During the team final Émard helped Canada win the silver medal behind the United States.
In October Émard competed at the 2023 World Championships. During qualifications he helped Canada finish fourth, which Gymnastics at the [2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification|qualified Canada a team berth] to the 2024 Olympic Games, a feat last achieved by the Canadian men's gymnastics team in 2008 Summer Olympics|2008]. During the team final Émard contributed scores on all apparatuses except pommel horse towards Canada's seventh place finish.

2024

In late June Émard was named to the team to represent Canada at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Zachary Clay, René Cournoyer, Félix Dolci, and Samuel Zakutney. While there he helped Canada finish eighth as a team.

Competitive history

YearEvent
2018Elite Canada665
2018UCIC Calgary
2018Pacific Rim Championships
2019Elite Canada
2019UCIC Calgary5
2019Canadian Championships
2019Paris Challenge Cup778
2019World Championships17
2021Koper Challenge Cup
2021Mersin Challenge Cup
2021World Championships878
2022Paris Challenge Cup5
2022World Championships10
2023---------
2023Pan American Championships7
2023RomGym Trophy
2023World Championships7
2023Pan American Games1668
2024Elite Canada154
2024Canadian Championships1475
2024Olympic Games8
20252025 Summer [World University">2025 in artistic gymnastics">2025 Summer [World University Games|World University Games]5
2025World Championships29