Benjamin Varonian | |
Fullname: | Benjamin Gabriel Jean Varonian |
Birth Date: | 15 June 1980 |
Birth Place: | Nice, France |
Hometown: | Nice, France |
Height: | 5inchesft6inchesin (ftin) |
Discipline: | MAG |
Club: | O.A.J.L.P. Antibes |
Benjamin Varonian (born 15 June 1980 in Nice, France) is a French-Armenian[1] 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 in a non-boycotted olympics.