Emma Spence

She placed 26th in the all-around and fourth on vault.

Her great-grandmother was sprinter Mary Vandervliet who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Emma Spence (born February 27, 2003) is a Canadian artistic gymnast.

She represented Canada at the 2022 World Championships and won a bronze in the team event, their first team medal.

She won bronze with the team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Emma Spence was born in Cambridge, Ontario in 2003.

She is a Franco-Ontarian whose first language is French.

As the top 2003-born gymnast, Spence was selected to represent Canada at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.

While there she qualified to the all-around, vault, balance beam, and floor exercise finals.

Spence finished 10th in the all-around final, third on vault behind Giorgia Villa of Italy and Csenge Bácskay of Hungary, fifth on floor exercise, and eighth on balance beam.

She was selected as Canada's flag bearer at the closing ceremonies.

Individually Spence placed 14th in the all-around.

In May Spence competed at the Canadian National Championships.

After the first day of competition she was in seventh place in the all-around.

On the second day, Spence withdrew from the competition after only competing on uneven bars due to a knee injury.

In June Spence competed at the Flanders International Team Challenge in Ghent, Belgium alongside Laurie Denommée, Isabela Onyshko, Quinn Skrupa, and Rose-Kaying Woo.

Together they placed fourth in the team final behind the Netherlands, Australia, and Belgium.

In 2016 Spence competed at Elite Gym Massilia.

She competed on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise and did not qualify to any event finals.

In 2017 Spence competed at Elite Canada where she only competed the uneven bars, vault and the floor exercise, due to injury during the competition.

In March she competed at International Gymnix in Montreal where she won gold on the uneven bars.

In May she competed at the Canadian Championships where she won silver in the all-around behind Ana Padurariu.

Additionally she finished fourth on vault and third on uneven bars and balance beam.

She was later selected to represent Canada at the International Junior Japan competition alongside Padurariu.

Spence placed eighth in the all-around.

Spence ended the season competing at Elite Gym Massilia.

Individually she is the 2018 Youth Olympic bronze medallist on vault as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Games all-around and balance beam bronze medalist.

With Padurariu becoming senior, Spence entered 2018 as the top Canadian junior.

In February she competed at Elite Canada where she placed first in the all-around, third on vault and first on uneven bars and floor exercise.

In March Spence competed at International Gymnix where she placed sixth in the all-around, seventh on vault, sixth on uneven bars, and eighth on floor exercise.

Spence was later selected to represent Canada at the 2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships.

While there she helped Canada win silver in the team final.

In the all-around she placed fifth, and she placed fourth on vault and sixth on balance beam and floor exercise.

At the Canadian Championships in May Spence placed second in the all-around behind Zoé Allaire-Bourgie.

In June Spence represented Canada at the 2018 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

She placed fifth in the all-around and on balance beam and won silver in the team final.

In 2019, Spence turned senior.

She made her debut at Elite Canada where she placed seventh in the all-around and fourth on floor exercise.

In March she competed at the 2019 L'International Gymnix.

She helped Canada win the silver medal.