With 15,700 points in an incontestable and complex exercise, Nemour, 17, made the Algerian anthem ring out in the Bercy Arena and stood at the top of the podium. Her fifth place in the All-Around is already an African record.

After a very good run at the Games and throughout the year, Kaylia Nemour beat the representatives of two sporting powers, China and the United States, followed by China's Quiyuan Qiu, world champion, with 15,500 and the USA's Sunissa Lee with 14,800. Defending champion Nina Derwael of Belgium finished fourth.

US gymnastics great Simone Biles failed to qualify for the uneven bars final. But competing last, teammate Lee snatched bronze ahead of Derwael, a former two-time world champion who was returning after surgery.

Excited since the end of her exercise, with an expression that showed on her 17-year-old face a mixture of tiredness, effort and pride, she confessed afterwards to the media in a "state of shock" after having achieved "the dream of her life".

She is competing under the Algerian flag, Kaylia Nemour was born in France but is competing for Algeria at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. There have been disagreements with the French federation due to health problems that led her to compete for Algeria in a controversial switch France tried to block.

Kaylia Nemour's gymnastics career began in France at the age of four but progressed quickly. At the age of 11, she made her international debut at the Tournoi International 2017. She finished 16th in the all-around competition in the Espoir division. As a junior athlete, Nemour faced numerous setbacks, notably the COVID-19 pandemic, which limited her training.

In 2022, the 16-year-old was eligible for senior international competitions, but a knee injury and disagreements with the French Gymnastics Federation prevented her from competing in all but one competition of the season: the Arab Championships in October 2022.

The Arab Championships were both her debut in senior competition and the first time she competed for Algeria, the country of her father. She won two gold medals (team, uneven bars) and one silver (balance beam).

2023 was a historic year for Nemour, who won gold at the African Championships and qualified for the 2023 World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.

Men's rings

China's Yang Liu won gold in the men's rings final at the Bercy Arena on Sunday with 15,300 points, followed by another Chinese athlete, Jingyuan Zou, with 15,233, and Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias in bronze with 15,100. Frenchman Samir Ait Said and Turkey's Adem Asil missed out on the podium.

Liu, a two-time world champion on the apparatus, retain the rings title he won in Tokyo, was not totally happy, cause last monday lost the Gold medail, that won Japan, in the team final.

Petrounias, third,  became the first man with three Olympic medals on rings. His friend France's Samir Ait Said came up just short in his quest for a medal to mark his return from a horrific broken leg suffered in vault qualifying in Rio de Janeiro.

Vault

Finally, in the men's vault, the gold medal went to Carlos Edriel Yulo of the Philippines, who on Saturday triumphed in the men's floor exercise on Saturday, winning The Philippines’ second Olympic gold in history and firs in Gymnastics.

Yulo, who trained for seven years in Japan due to a lack of opportunities back home, said he hoped his historic win would help the sport grow in his Southeast Asian country.

Yulo obtained 15.116. Silver went to Armenia's Artur Davtyan (14.966) and bronze to Great Britain's Harry Hepworth (14.949).