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Benoît Caranobe
Personal information
Full nameBenoît Caranobe
Born (1980-06-12) 12 June 1980 (age 44)
Vitry-sur-Seine, France
HometownNoisy-le-Grand, France
Height164 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Gymnastics career
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Country represented France
LevelSenior
Retired2013
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Individual All-Around
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2001 Beijing Vault
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 2009 Pescara Individual All-Around
Silver medal – second place 2009 Pescara Team All-Around

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

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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

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "Caranobe too busy having fun to notice medal". Reuters. 2008-08-14. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
  2. ^ a b "International Gymnast Magazine Online". Archived from the original on 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". CBC News. Archived from the original on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2008-08-28.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Archived copy". CBC News. Archived from the original on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2008-08-28.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ Hernandez, Anthony (April 30, 2016). "On a retrouvé Benoît Caranobe, le gymnaste devenu acrobate au Moulin Rouge". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved July 1, 2017.
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