Alexandra Rose Raisman Bio

Alexandra Rose Raisman, born May 25, 1994 born on May 25, 1994, is an American retired gymnast who was an artistic. She is also two-time Olympian. She was the leader of the 2012 "Fierce Five", and 2016 "Final Five," U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team. In the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she was awarded a gold medal in the team event which made her and her teammate Gabby Douglas the only Americans with back-to-back team gold medals. Raisman also took home silver medals for individual all-around as well as the floor exercise. Raisman received silver medals for the all-around individual, and also for the floor exercise. She also is the two-time national champion of floor exercise (2012,2015), the 2012 national champion of balance beam, and a five-time medalist at national championships all around (silver in 2016 and silver in 2011, 2012, 2012, and the year 2015). In 2013 she was admitted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Raisman was the daughter of Lynn Faber, an ex-high school gymnast and Rick Raisman, on May 25 1994, in Needham. She has three siblings, Madison, Chloe and Brett. Raisman who is Jewish has said that she takes a lot pride in the fact that she is able to represent the United States of America, but as well as the Jewish community all over the world. Raisman began gymnastics at 18 months old. She attributes her love of gymnastics to the "Magnificent Seven", an American women's team which won the gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics. She trained at Exxcel Gymnastics and Climbing up to Level 8 before she transferred to Brestyan's American Gymnastics Club, where she was trained by Silvia Brestyan and Mihai Brestyan. Raisman graduated Needham High School, 2012 after completing her senior year via online courses and training to compete in the Olympics.