Céleste Mordenti

Céleste Mordenti (born 25 January 2003) is a Luxembourgish artistic gymnast. She represented Luxembourg at the 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023 World Championships. She is the first gymnast from Luxembourg to win a medal in a FIG World Cup event.

Early life Mordenti was born in Munich, Germany, in 2003 to a German father and a French mother. When she was two years old, she moved to Luxembourg. After finishing high school, she moved to the Netherlands to attend Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she is studying artificial intelligence. She became age-eligible for senior level competition the following year and competed at the 2019 European Championships, finishing 58th in the all-around qualifications. Then at the 2019 European Games, she finished 29th in the all-around qualifications. She competed at her first World Championships and finished 137th in the all-around qualifications and did not earn a berth for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

2020–2021 Luxembourg was one of the countries that chose to compete at the 2020 European Championships, and Mordenti was the third reserve for the balance beam final. She then finished 53rd in the all-around qualifications at the 2021 European Championships. At the 2021 World Championships, she finished 34th in the all-around during qualifications, becoming the highest placing Luxembourgish gymnast in World Championships history.

2022–2023 Mordenti finished 66th in the all-around qualification round at the 2022 European Championships. Then at the 2022 World Championships, she finished 68th in the all-around qualifications. She won silver medals on the uneven bars and balance beam at the 2023 Luxembourg Open. She then placed seventh on the uneven bars at the 2023 Osijek World Challenge Cup and fifth on the uneven bars at the Mersin World Challenge Cup. At the 2023 World Championships, she finished 64th in the all-around qualifications and did not qualify for an Olympic berth.

2024 Mordenti placed 27th in the all-around at the 2024 European Championships. She then competed at the Szombathely World Challenge Cup, where she won bronze on the uneven bars behind Charlotte Booth and Tonya Paulsson. In doing so, she became the first Luxembourgish gymnast to win a World Cup series medal.

2025 At the Varna World Challenge Cup Mordenti qualified to all four event finals. She won bronze on uneven bars behind Nola Matthews and Ruby Stacey. At the 2025 European Championships she finished thirty-first in the all-around during the qualification round. At this competition Mordenti, alongside Greek gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias, was awarded the SmartScoring Shooting Star Award, an award which is presented to "a gymnast with an exceptional story in the spotlight, someone who is an inspiration for the future generation of gymnasts and the general public alike". In both competitions, she performed a tucked salto backwards with two twists (720°) as a newly developed dismount from the balance beam. In being the first gymnast to successfully compete it in a major international competition, it was named the "Mordenti" after her by the International Gymnastics Federation in the Code of Points.

Eponymous skill Mordenti has one skill named after her in the Code of Points.

Apparatus Name Description Difficulty Added to the Code of Points Balance beam Mordenti Tucked double twist dismount C (0.3) 2025 Varna World Challenge Cup

Competitive History +Competitive history of Céleste Mordenti at the junior level YearEvent 2017 Top Gym Tournament 6 38 2018 Austrian Team Open 10 15 Junior European Championships 25 60 Gymnova Cup 10 6 +Competitive history of Céleste Mordenti at the senior level YearEvent 2019 European Championships 58 Luxembourg Championships European Games 29 World Championships 137 2020 European Championships 2021 European Championships 53 World Championships 34 Gymnova Cup 10 2022 European Championships 66 World Championships 68 Gymnova Cup 4 8 2023 Luxembourg Open 8 European Championships 61 Osijek World Challenge Cup 7 Dutch Championships 8 Mersin World Challenge Cup 5 World Championships 64 2024 Luxembourg Open European Championships 27 Dutch Championships 15 Szombathely World Challenge Cup 6 Christmas Cup 6 2025 Luxembourg Open 4 4 5 Varna World Challenge Cup 7 8 7 European Championships 31 Dutch Championships 4 6 World University Games 11 4 2026 Osijek World Cup 8 European Championships