Benoît Caranobe
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Full name | Benoît Caranobe | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Vitry-sur-Seine, France | June 12, 1980|||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Noisy-le-Grand, France | |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 164 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Benoît Caranobe (born in Vitry-sur-Seine on June 12, 1980) is a French gymnast who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Caranobe was the first Frenchman to medal in the Individual All-Around competition since Marco Torrès won silver and Jean Gounot won bronze in said event at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.[1]
2004 Athens Olympics
In his first Olympic appearance, Benoît Caranobe placed 19th in the men's all around competition and helped the French men's team to a 9th place finish in the team qualification, though not enough to make the team finals.[2]
2008 Beijing Olympics
Caranobe qualified to the all around finals in tenth place, 2.950 points behind the leader Yang Wei.[3] In the all-around finals, Caranobe finished in third place, ahead of medal favorites Hiroyuki Tomita, Fabian Hambüchen, and Yang Tae-Young.[4] His third place finish is particularly surprising given that Benoît had placed only third at the French National Gymnastics championships.[2]
References
- ↑ "Caranobe too busy having fun to notice medal". Reuters. 2008-08-14. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.intlgymnast.com/olympics/gymnasts/France/563.html
- ↑ CBC News http://stats.cbc.ca/olympics_results.asp?id=gam_024900&sport=GYM&sub_sport=GA. Missing or empty
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