Samir Aït Saïd (born 1 November 1989) is a French male

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

and a member of the national team. He has won a total of three medals, in each color, in the rings apparatus at the

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(2013 to 2015), and was also selected to compete for the French men's artistic gymnastics squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He was a French flag bearer in the opening ceremonies of the

2020 Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in Tokyo, and performed a backflip while he was there. In the

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phase of the men's artistic gymnastics, Aït Saïd suffered a double compound fracture in his left leg while landing badly on the vault exercise, forcing him to be pulled out of the competition. He has qualified to represent France at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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* 1989 births Living people French male artistic gymnasts French sportspeople of Algerian descent People from Champigny-sur-Marne Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of France European champions in gymnastics Sportspeople from Val-de-Marne European Games competitors for France Gymnasts at the 2019 European Games Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century French people {{France-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub