Alexandra Orlando

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Alexandra Michel Orlando (born January 19, 1987) is a retired Canadian rhythmic gymnast. She represented Canada at the 2008 Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games.

Biography

Orlando was born in Toronto, Ontario and attended Havergal College. She trained at the Ritmika RG Club under Mimi Masleva, a native of Bulgaria.

Orlando won every rhythmic gymnastics event at the Canadian National Championships in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. Orlando swept the individual event finals at the Elite Canada rhythmic gymnastics competition in 2007 and also won the all around crown. At the world championships in September, she finished ninth in the all-around competition and qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing. She however only placed 18th in Beijing.[https://www.tsn.ca/summer_sports/news_story/?ID=218876&hubname=summer_sports TSN : SUMMER SPORTS - Canada's Sports Leader]{{dead link|date=October 2012}}

She won all six rhythmic gymnastics events included as part of the gymnastics program at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.Sportal (2006). [http://www.sportal.com.au/m2006.asp?i=news&id=80269 Gymnastics: Six gold for Orlando]. Retrieved March 26, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829072408/http://www.sportal.com.au/m2006.asp?i=news&id=80269 |date=August 29, 2006 }} She joined Graham Smith (1978, Edmonton), Susie O'Neill (1998, Kuala Lumpur) and Ian Thorpe (2002, Manchester) as the only competitors to win six gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games.{{cite news | last=Himmer | first=Alastair | title=Orlando matches Games record six golds | date=2006-03-26 | publisher=Reuters Canada | url=http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-03-26T053405Z_01_SP3518_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-COMMONWEALTH-GYMNASTICS-COL.XML&archived=False}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

Orlando currently studies commerce at the University of Toronto. She is the subject of the book Alexandra Orlando: In Pursuit Of Victory (Toronto: BookLand Press, 2006) by Martin Avery.

Orlando is of Italian descent; her father is Sicilian and mother from Salerno.{{Cite web|url=http://www.zampablu.it/interview/070826_orlando_en.php|title = Ginnastica Ritmica - Rhythmic Gymnastics}} She stated in an interview, "I went last summer for vacations for two weeks. I have many Italian relatives, my family is from the South. My mother is from Salerno, and my father is Sicilian. They all live there still, just my family lives in Canada."

References

External links

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{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070909175642/http://www.realchampions.ca/athletes/aorlando |date=mdy |title=Alexandra Orlando on Real Champions}}
{{Olympics.com profile|alexandra-orlando|org_archive=alexandra-orlando}}
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Category:1987 births

Category:Canadian sportspeople of Italian descent

Category:Canadian rhythmic gymnasts

Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada

Category:Gymnasts at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

Category:Gymnasts at the 2003 Pan American Games

Category:Gymnasts at the 2007 Pan American Games

Category:Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Category:Living people

Category:Olympic gymnasts for Canada

Category:Gymnasts from Toronto

Category:Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada