William Emard

William Émard (born 17 March 2000) is a Canadian artistic gymnast. He represented Canada at the 2024 Olympic Games. He is the 2026 Pan American champion on rings. He was part of the gold medal-winning team at the 2026 Pan American Championships and the silver medal-winning team at the 2025 World University Games.

Gymnastics career 2018–2021 Émard joined the senior Canadian national team in 2018. However, his early career was plagued by injuries. At the 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.

Émard competed at the 2019 Paris Challenge Cup 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 seventeenth as a team during qualifications. Throughout 2019 and 2020, Émard had been suffering from a knee injury that kept him limited in his training.

Émard's first International success came at the 2021 Koper World Challenge Cup where he won silver on floor exercise, and then at the Mersin World Challenge Cup he won bronze on floor exercise, silver on rings, and gold on vault. Émard competed at the 2021 World Championships, qualifying in eleventh to the all-around final, sixth on rings, and eighth on vault. He placed eighth in the all-around final and on vault and seventh on rings. In finishing eighth in the all-around final, he earned the best all-around result for a Canadian male gymnast in World Championship history.

2022–2024 Émard competed at the 2022 World Championships where he helped the Canadian team finish tenth during qualifications. Émard competed at the 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 qualified Canada a team berth to the 2024 Olympic Games, a feat last achieved by the Canadian men's gymnastics team in 2008. During the team final Émard contributed scores on all apparatuses except pommel horse towards Canada's seventh place finish.

In late June of 2024, 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.

2025–present Émard competed at the 2025 World University Games alongside Matteo Bardana, Ioannis Chronopoulos, Félix Dolci, and Jayson Rampersad. Together they finished second behind Japan, earning Canada its first ever men's team medal at the FISU World University Games. Individually Émard won bronze in the all-around and on rings.

At the 2026 Pan American Championships, Émard helped Canada win their first-ever Pan American team gold medal. During event finals he won gold on rings, becoming the first Canadian to win a title on rings at the Pan American Championships.

Émard competed at the 2026 Commonwealth Games alongside Jordan Carroll, René Cournoyer, Félix Dolci, and Ethan Ikeda. Together they won gold as a team, Canada's first Commonwealth men's team gold in twenty years. Individually, Émard qualified to the all-around, rings, parallel bars, and horizontal bar finals. Émard finished eighth in the all-around final. On the first day of apparatus, he won silver on rings behind Dolci. On the final day of the competition, he placed fourth on parallel bars. During the horizontal bar final, his grip broke, leading to him falling off the apparatus. Rules state that when equipment malfunctions, an athlete can redo their routine after the other competitors have competed. Émard performed cleanly on his second attempt and won bronze behind Dolci and Marios Georgiou.

Competitive history +Competitive history of William Émard at the junior levelYearEvent 2016 Olympic Hopes Cup 7 2017 Elite Canada 4 UCIC Calgary Canadian Championships Guimaraes Tournament Junior Japan Intl Tournament

+Competitive history of William Émard at the senior levelYearEvent 2018 Elite Canada 6 6 5 UCIC Calgary Pacific Rim Championships 2019 Elite Canada UCIC Calgary 5 Canadian Championships Paris Challenge Cup 7 7 8 World Championships 17 2021 Koper Challenge Cup Mersin Challenge Cup World Championships 8 7 8 2022 Paris Challenge Cup 5 World Championships 10 2023 Pan American Championships 7 RomGym Trophy World Championships 7 Pan American Games 16 6 8 2024 Elite Canada 15 4 Canadian Championships 14 7 5 Olympic Games 8 2025 World University Games 5 World Championships 29 2026 Elite Canada 8 Canadian Championships 4 6 8 Pan American Championships Commonwealth Games 8 4