Charleen Pach

Charleen Pach is the youngest of the six German gymnasts on the entry list for Worlds in Rotterdam. 2026 is her first senior season, and she settled in fast: at her first World Cup, in Osijek in April, she made the floor final, and at Germany's second Euros trial in August she placed third in the all-around, earning a spot as an alternate for Zagreb.

In 2025 she represented Germany at the Junior World Championships in Manila, the first junior gymnast from Cologne ever to do so.

For twelve years, since she was four, she trained in the gym at the German Sport University in Cologne. In September 2026 she moved to the national training center in Mannheim, where school and training are built around each other. In the Bundesliga she's still competing for TZ DSHS Köln this season.

Her favorite event is beam, where she scored 13.550 in the Bundesliga in July, her highest score so far. She's one of eleven gymnasts at the final Worlds trial in Stuttgart on October 3.