Benoît Caranobe
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Benoît Caranobe (born 12 June 1980 in Vitry-sur-Seine) is a French former 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] and his overall score was only 0.050 behind silver medalist, legendary Kohei Uchimura of Japan.
Later life
Caranobe retired from competition in 2013. He is the owner of a wine shop in Noisy-le-Grand near Paris and also works as an acrobat at the Moulin Rouge cabaret.[5]
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- French male artistic gymnasts
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- Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
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- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France
- Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in gymnastics
- Summer World University Games medalists in gymnastics
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for France
- Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade
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