Benjamin Varonian (born 15 June 1980 in Nice, France) is a

French-Armenian Armenians in France ( hy, ֆրանսահայեր, translit=Fransahayer; french: Arméniens de France) are France, French citizens of Armenians, Armenian ancestry. The French Armenian community is, by far, the largest in the European Union and the A ...

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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 The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

and won an Olympic silver medal in the horizontal bar. Varonian and

Éric Poujade Éric Poujade (born 8 August 1972) is a French former gymnast who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dha ...

both became the first ever French gymnasts to win Olympic medals in gymnastics in a non-boycotted olympics.

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1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Nice French male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for France Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic medalists in gymnastics French people of Armenian descent Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics {{France-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub