Alexandra Aristoteli | |
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Nickname(s) | Lexy |
Born | Bankstown, New South Wales [1] | 24 May 1997
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) [2] |
Gymnastics career | |
Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics |
Country represented | ![]() |
Club | Premier Gymnastics Academy |
Head coach(es) | Gina Peluso |
Alexandra Aristoteli (born 24 May 1997) [2] is an Australian group rhythmic gymnast who represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [2]
Aristoteli began ballet when she was four years old because her mother, Maria Aristoteli, is the director of Queensland Dance and Performing Arts. She began training full-time in ballet when she was fifteen years old and spent months training in the United States at the Houston Ballet Academy and the Miami City Ballet School. [3] [1]
Aristoteli began competing with Australia's senior rhythmic gymnastics group in 2018. At the 2018 World Championships, the group finished twenty-ninth in the all-around. [4]
Aristoteli won a gold medal at the 2021 Oceanic Championships with the Australian senior group and qualified a quota for the 2020 Olympic Games. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Emily Abbot, Alannah Mathews, Himeka Onoda, and Felicity White. [5] They were the first rhythmic gymnastics group to represent Australia at the Olympics. [6] They finished fourteenth in the qualification round for the group all-around. [7]