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Alexandra Orlando
Full name	Alexandra Michel Orlando
Born	(1987-01-19) January 19, 1987 (age 37) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height	167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Rhythmic gymnastics
Country represented	Canada
Club	Ritmika
Head coach(es)	Dimitrichka Masleva
Assistant coach(es)	Elvira Boudakova
Medal record Representing  Canada Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne All-Around 2006 Melbourne Ball 2006 Melbourne Clubs 2006 Melbourne Ribbon 2006 Melbourne Rope 2006 Melbourne Team Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro Clubs 2007 Rio de Janeiro Rope 2007 Rio de Janeiro Hoop 2003 Santo Domingo Hoop 2003 Santo Domingo Clubs 2003 Santo Domingo Ribbon 2003 Santo Domingo Group All-Around 2003 Santo Domingo Ball 2003 Santo Domingo Group Ribbons 2003 Santo Domingo Group Hoops-Balls

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.

She won all six rhythmic gymnastics events included as part of the gymnastics program at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. 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.

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. 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

1. TSN : SUMMER SPORTS - Canada's Sports Leader
2. Sportal (2006). Gymnastics: Six gold for Orlando. Retrieved March 26, 2006. Archived August 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
3. Himmer, Alastair (2006-03-26). "Orlando matches Games record six golds". Reuters Canada.
4. "Ginnastica Ritmica - Rhythmic Gymnastics".

External links

• Alexandra Orlando at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Alexandra Orlando on Real Champions at the Wayback Machine (archived September 9, 2007)
• Alexandra Orlando at Olympics.com
• Alexandra Orlando at Olympic.org (archived)
• Alexandra Orlando at Olympedia (archive)
• Alexandra Orlando at Team Canada
• Alexandra Michel Orlando at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)

• 1987 births
• Canadian sportspeople of Italian descent
• Canadian rhythmic gymnasts
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
• Gymnasts at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
• Gymnasts at the 2003 Pan American Games
• Gymnasts at the 2007 Pan American Games
• Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Living people
• Olympic gymnasts for Canada
• Gymnasts from Toronto
• Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
• Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
• Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
• Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics
• Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics
• Havergal College alumni
• Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
• 20th-century Canadian sportswomen
• 21st-century Canadian sportswomen
• Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games