Hometown Nice, France Height 1.68 m Club O.A.J.L.P. Antibes Home town Nice | Name Benjamin Varonian Country represented France Role Olympic athlete | |
Full name Benjamin Gabriel Jean Varonian Born June 15, 1980 (age 43)
Nice, France ( 1980-06-15 ) Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics Olympic medals Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's Horizontal Bar | ||
Benjamin VARONIAN (FRA) HB - 2000 Sydney Olympics EF
Benjamin Varonian (born June 15, 1980 in Nice, France) is a French-Armenian Olympic gymnast.
Varonian won two gold medals in the parallel bars and team all-around at the 1998 European Junior Gymnastics Championships. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won an Olympic silver medal in the horizontal bar. Varonian and Éric Poujade both became the first ever French gymnasts to win Olympic medals in gymnastics.
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