AIT SAID Samir

Olympic Games

Year	Location	SR	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	9	12

World Championships

Year	Location	FX	SR	AA	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	191	3	-	14
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	-	4	-	-
2015	Glasgow, GBR	206	4	-	10
2014	Nanning, CHN	90	5	254	11
2013	Antwerp, BEL	-	6	-	-
2009	London, GBR	-	7	200	-

European Games

Year	Location	SR
2019	Minsk, BLR	5

European Championships

Year	Location	SR
2019	Szczecin, POL	6

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	SR
2019/2020	1 x 2nd

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2019/2020	Rings	Cottbus, GER	14.900
5	2019/2020	Rings	Doha, QAT	14.633
8	2019/2020	Rings	Baku, AZE	14.233
13	2019/2020	Rings	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	13.000

Legend
FX - Floor Excercise, VT - Vault, HB - Horizontal Bar, PB - Parallel Bars, PH - Pommel Horse, SR - Rings, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Sam (ffgym.com, 28 Oct 2011)

Music, cinema, mixed martial arts, boxing, visiting amusement parks and zoos. (ffgym.fr, 15 Sep 2019)

Athlete

Physiotherapy - National School of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Saint-Maurice, FRA

English, French

Olympique Antibes Juan les Pins Gymnastique [France]

Rodolphe Bouche [personal], FRA

A minor shoulder injury prevented him from competing at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. (gymandnews.com, 27 Jun 2018)

A torn chest muscle prevented him from competing at the 2018 World Cup event in Doha, Qatar. (actu.fr, 18 May 2018)

He fractured his tibia and fibula [lower leg] while performing on vault during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The injury kept him out of action until mid-2017. (Olympics Twitter page, 07 Aug 2017; gymandnews.com, 24 Jul 2017)

He sustained three fractures to his right tibia [lower leg] after falling from the vault in the team competition at the 2012 European Championships in Montpellier, France. The injury required him to have surgery and to stop training for six months. It also forced him to miss the 2012 Olympic Games, which he attended as a spectator. (francetvsport.fr, 18 Apr 2015; lequipe.fr, 16 Apr 2015; codesport.fr, 11 Nov 2013; bfmtv.com, 15 Apr 2015)

2004 (ffgym.com, 28 Oct 2011)

He took up gymnastics in 1996 at primary school. (ffgym.com, 28 Oct 2011; bfmtv.com, 15 Apr 2015)

His father, a black belt in karate, wanted him to practise judo, but he chose gymnastics because he liked it at school. (rfi.fr, 01 Mar 2016)

To win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and to be world champion. (actu.fr, 18 May 2018; ffgym.fr, 15 Sep 2019)

"When you have a goal in life you have to believe in yourself and persevere." (Olympics Twitter page, 07 Aug 2017)

At the 2019 European Championships in Szczecin, Poland, he received the Shooting Star award, presented to gymnasts with an exceptional story who are an inspiration for the future generation of gymnasts. (ecszczecin2019.eu, 13 Apr 2019)