Lisa Alexander (synchronized swimmer)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Lisa Alexander (born September 22, 1968) is a Canadian former competitor in synchronised swimming and Olympic medallist.
Career
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Alexander began synchronized swimming at age eight.[1] She had success in solo, duet and team events. Her original duet partner was Kathy Glen, with whom she would win a bronze medal at the 1991 World Aquatics Championships in Perth.[2] Her second duet partner was Erin Woodley they would win gold at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, where Alexander would also win a gold in the solo event.[3] At the 1994 World Aquatics Championships she would bring home three medals, a silver in team, a bronze in solo and a silver in duet.[2] She and Woodley would then go on to win a silver medal in duet at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina.[4] Alexander's most notable achievement was being team captain of Canadian team that received a silver medal in team event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.[5]
Other work
Alexander was President of the Mississauga Sports Council and coached future Olympians at the Etobicoke Olympium.
Honours
Alexander was Ontario's Female Athlete of the Year in 1995.[1] Alexander was inducted into the Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.[1]
References
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- 1968 births
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- Canadian synchronized swimmers
- Olympic silver medalists for Canada
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- Swimmers from Toronto
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Olympic medalists in synchronized swimming
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1991 World Aquatics Championships
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in synchronised swimming
- Pan American Games silver medalists in synchronized swimming
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Synchronised swimmers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century Canadian sportswomen
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- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games