Alexandra Orlando
| Alexandra Orlando | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Alexandra Michel Orlando |
| Born | January 19, 1987 |
| Height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) |
| Gymnastics career | |
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics |
Country represented |  Canada |
| Club | Ritmika |
Head coach | Dimitrichka Masleva |
Assistant coach | Elvira Boudakova |
Medal record | |
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
[edit]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.[1] She 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.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4] 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
[edit]- ↑ Druzin, Randy (August 8, 2008). "Alexandra Orlando: Feeling rhythm and blues". cbc.ca. Retrieved July 8, 2026.
- ↑ Sportal (2006). Gymnastics: Six gold for Orlando. Retrieved March 26, 2006. Archived August 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Orlando wins 6 gold at Games". cbc.ca. March 26, 2006. Retrieved July 8, 2026.
- ↑ "Ginnastica Ritmica - Rhythmic Gymnastics".
External links
[edit]- Alexandra Orlando at World Gymnastics
- Alexandra Orlando at Olympics.com
- Alexandra Orlando at Team Canada
- Alexandra Orlando at Olympedia
- Alexandra Orlando at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Alexandra Orlando at InterSportStats
- 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
- Sportswomen from Ontario
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada in gymnastics
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada in gymnastics
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada 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
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in gymnastics
- Commonwealth Games gymnasts for Canada