Career
Elite Tousek-Renne qualified to the all-around finals at both Games, placing 26th all-around in Atlanta and 32nd all-around in Sydney. She also competed in four World Gymnastics Championships: 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999. Her best finish at a Worlds was 8th place on floor exercise at the 1999 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tianjin, China.
At the 1999 World Championships, she also performed an original gymnastics skill that bears her name in the artistic gymnastics Code of Points: the Tousek, a cross-wise back handspring on balance beam.
During her elite career, Tousek-Renne trained with coach Elvira Saadi at Cambridge Kips in Cambridge, Ontario. College During her college career with the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins, the freshman Tousek-Renne earned the uneven bars title at the 2001 National Collegiate Athletic Association women's gymnastic championships.
She placed fifth on bars in the event finals at the 2002 and 2003 National Collegiate Athletic Association championships, and she placed fifth on balance beam in the 2004 National Collegiate Athletic Association championships. She also scored perfect 10s on uneven bars in the 2003 University of California, Los Angeles versus
Arkansas meet and the 2004 University of California, Los Angeles versus
Michigan meet. In 2006, she went to work as an acrobat for the show Corteo. Her acts in the show included "Animation," which sets the stage for the show, plus the trampoline act "Bouncing Bedfordshire" and the high-bar act "Tournik." She also performed two comedic turns as an oversized golf ball and as half of a costumed horse.
As of 2016, Tousek-Renne, who plays an Amazon in the show, continues to travel the world with
In 2012, Tousek-Renne married Yohann Renne, a Cirque high-bar artist from France.
Tousek-Renne was on maternity leave in early 2014 and toured North America with Renne, who is head coach on ’s 2014 touring show, Amalun.
