Elena Colas

Elena Colas (born 1 May 2010) is a French artistic gymnast. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 2025 Junior World Championships where she also won silver in the all-around and on floor exercise. She is the 2024 Junior European all-around, uneven bars, and team champion, as well as the 2026 European balance beam champion.

Junior gymnastics career Colas began gymnastics at three years old at the club Avoine-Beaumont because her mother was a coach there.

2021–2023: Espoir Colas won the all-around title at the 2021 French Championships in the 11-year-old category, standing out for her high level of difficulty for her age. She made her international debut at the 2021 Swiss Cup Juniors. She placed fifth in the all-around and helped the French team win the bronze medal behind Germany and Belgium. She won the all-around in the espoir division at the 2021 Tournoi International and the Avoine club won the team title. In the event finals, she won the gold medal on the balance beam, the silver medal on the uneven bars, and the bronze medals on the vault and floor exercise.

Colas won the all-around title in the espoir division at the 2022 Elek Matolay Memorial. She then won gold medals on the vault and balance beam in the event finals. She helped Avoine-Beaumont win the Top 12 Finals by winning all four events. Then at the French Championships, she won the all-around title in the 12-year-old division by more than 13 points. At the 2022 Tournoi International, she won six medals- gold in the all-around, vault, uneven bars, and balance beam, and silver in the team and floor exercise.

At the 2023 Top 12 Finals, Colas helped Avoine-Beaumont win its third consecutive title. She then won her third consecutive French national all-around title, this time in the 13-year-old division.

2024–2025: Junior Colas had the highest all-around score in the European Championships selection meet, and she was named to the French junior team. Before the European Championships, she competed at the Magglingen Junior Friendly where she won the all-around gold medal and helped the French team win the gold medal by nearly 10 points.

Two days after her 14th birthday, Colas led the French team to a gold medal at the 2024 Junior European Championships, and she won the individual all-around title. Then in the event finals, she tied with Italy's Giulia Perotti for the gold medal on the uneven bars, and she won the bronze medal on the vault.

At the 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival, Colas helped France win gold as a team. Additionally she won gold in the all-around and on the uneven bars and balance beam and won silver on floor exercise behind teammate Maïana Prat.

Colas competed at the 2025 Junior World Championships alongside Lola Chassat and Prat. As a team they won gold, earning France its first Junior World Championships team medal. Individually Colas qualified to all five individual finals, leading the all-around qualification with a score of 55.766, which was 0.7 higher than what the 2025 Senior World Champion, Angelina Melnikova, scored to win the title. Despite this huge score, during the all-around final Colas suffered numerous mishaps and scored 53.298 to win the silver medal behind Yume Minamino of Japan. During apparatus finals Colas finished fifth on vault, fourth on uneven bars, and eighth on balance beam before ending the competition winning silver on floor exercise behind Misa Nishiyama of Japan. In winning one gold and two silver medals, Colas tied Minamino as the second most decorated female athlete at the competition, behind Nishiyama who won one gold, two silvers, and one bronze.

Senior gymnastics career 2026 Colas became age-eligible for senior level competition in 2026. She competed at the 2026 Osijek World Cup where she won gold on floor exercise and silver on uneven bars and balance beam. At the 2026 French National Championships, Colas won her first senior all-around title.

Quote_box "I feel good in France and with the French national team in general. I am French, I have no other nationality, so why would I change my nationality when everything is going well for me? [...] after discussing it with my family, I've made my decision. I've always been transparent and said that I would stay in France." — Colas via L'Équipe As these negotiations had been going on since October 2025, there had been considerable interest leading up to the announcement in whether Colas would follow them to Qatar or remain representing France. However, Colas asserted her decision to remain a part of the French national team and continue representing France, On the first day of competition, Colas won bronze in the all-around behind Angelina Melnikova and Anna Kalmykova. During event finals, Colas won gold on balance beam and silver on floor exercise behind Manila Esposito. On the final day of competition, she helped France win team bronze.

Competitive history

Junior +Competitive history of Elena Colas at the espoir level YearEvent 2021 Swiss Cup Juniors 5 Tournoi International 2022 Elek Matolay Memorial French National Championships Tournoi International 2023 French National Championships French National Team Review +Competitive history of Elena Colas at the junior level YearEvent 2024 Magglingen Junior Friendly Junior European Championships 4 French National Championships 4 French National Team Review Tournoi International 4 2025 International Gymnix French National Championships Sens Junior Friendly European Youth Olympic Festival Junior World Championships 5 4 8

Senior +Competitive history of Elena Colas at the senior levelYearEvent 2026 City of Jesolo Trophy 6 Osijek World Cup French National Championships 5 European Championships