Samir Aït Saïd
| Samir Aït Saïd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| — Gymnast ♂ — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
November 1, 1989 Champigny-sur-Marne, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Samir Aït Saïd (born November 1, 1989) is a French artistic gymnast, specializing in the rings and the vault. He won a gold medal for his rings routine at the 2013 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Career
Aït Saïd won his first senior medals at the 2010 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, with a silver on the rings and a team bronze with France. The following year he won European silver on the vault. Aït Saïd broke his right leg while landing the vault at the 2012 European Championships, two months before the 2012 Summer Olympics.[1] He later recovered to take part in the 2013 European Championships where he won gold on the rings. He took bronze and silver in the same discipline in subsequent years.
Unfortunately, Aït Saïd broke his left leg while landing the vault during the men's qualification event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2] Both his tibia and fibula were broken.
References
- ↑ Rogers, Martin (7 August 2016). "Injured Olympic gymnast Samir Ait Said put on stretcher, then dropped". USA Today. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ↑ "Rio 2016: Gymnast Samir Ait Said breaks leg during Olympic vault". BBC Sport. 6 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.