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Alvaro De Miranda Neto

Álvaro Affonso de Miranda Neto (more commonly: Álvaro de Miranda, or "Doda" Miranda) (born 5 February 1973) is an Olympic-class Brazilian show jumping rider. He is married to Athina Onassis Roussel. He is president of the organizing committee behind the Athina Onassis International Horse Show, which debuted in 2007 as the fifth stage of the Global Champions Tour in Sao Paulo. In 2008, the AOIHS-Sao Paulo event was the final phase of the tour. For the tour in 2009, the host city of the AOIHS was Rio de Janeiro.

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Alvaro Affonso De Miranda Neto
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Miranda is the son of businessman Ricardo Miranda and his first wife, psychologist Elisabeth "Beth" Neto.

With two brothers and a sister, Miranda grew up in Brazil, though a young boy in 1983, he began training for competitive show jumping at Nelson Pessoa`s prestigious riding school in Belgium. Miranda has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Rio Branco College. He studied for one year at a university in Brussels. He left school after one year of study to devote himself fully to his sport. He told Istoé Gente (a Brazilian magazine) in February 2003 that his mother was disappointed at first with this decision, but now he has no regrets because he has been doing what he loves. At that time, his sponsors (including Visa and Audi) paid for his horses.

Career

Miranda is a four-time Olympic rider and two-time Olympic medalist. His Brazilian team won bronze medals at the 2000 Summer and 1996 Summer Olympic Games. At both the Atlanta and Sydney Games, he rode "Aspen Joter," a stallion who was born in 1985. He partnered himself with "Countdown" (b.1992) for Brazil at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also participated at the 2003 Pan American Games.

He is a FEI-class, grand-prix level rider. Every year since 1998, he has competed in the FEI World Equestrian Games.
In June 2009, Miranda ranked #2 in the Monte Carlo grand prix of the Global Champions Tour. He ranked 18th, with 32 points, leading into the GCT final in Doha, Qatar in November 2009. His performance in Doha (November 11–14, 2009) was unremarkable at first, but he gained third place in the final, an event with a purse of €300,000.

In November 2009, Miranda (on AD Picolien Zeldenrust) was the third place winner of the Global Champions Tour final in Doha. He actually had the fastest time, but his penalty placed him behind Michel Robert (first place) and Jos Lansink (second place).
In December 2009, Miranda (riding AD Peanuts) won the Salon du Cheval – Ceneca Trophy at the Gucci Masters in Villepinte, just north of Paris.

Horses
With his wife, Athina Onassis Miranda, he owns the AD Sport Horses company, which breeds and trains horses and is based at Haras de Ligny, the compound owned by the father-son team of Nelson and Rodrigo Pessoa in Fleurus, Belgium. In December 2009, at the Gucci Masters, Miranda confirmed that the company is moving to his and his wife`s new property in the Netherlands early in 2010.

List of horses
AD Picolien Zeldenrust (b.1997, Dutch Warmblood chestnut mare)
AD Chatwin (b.1993, bay gelding, Holsteiner, retired after leg injury in July 2008)
AD Ornella (b.1999, sold in December 2009 to Hernan Crespo via Jan Tops)
AD Norson (b.2001, chestnut stallion)
AD Como II (b.1997, bay gelding, Holsteiner)
AD Peanuts (b.1994, chestnut mare)
AD Untouchable (b.2001, grey stallion)
AD Ashleigh Drossel Dan (b.1998 grey gelding, Hannoverian)Australian bred.
[edit]Personal life

He married firstly Cibele Dorsa, a fashion model, by whom he has a daughter, Viviane, who was born on the first of January 2000. Cibele Dorsa had a son called Fernando Dorsa Oliva from a previous relationship.

In December 2005, he married secondly Athina Onassis Roussel, who legally changed her name the following year to Athina Onassis Miranda. Miranda`s longtime friend and fellow jumping rider Rodrigo Pessoa served as the best man at the wedding.

His first wife, Cibele Dorsa, committed suicide on March 26, 2011, at the age of 37. Her suicide note publication in Brazil`s gossip magazine Caras was forbidden by Miranda`s attorneys due to mentions relating him to Dorsa`s suicide.

Alvaro Affonso De Miranda Neto Horses

Aspen Joter (LORADO, 1985)
Babouche (Baloubet du Rouet, 2000)
Caroffna (Lugano van la Roche, 1986)
Countdown (Contender x Grannus, 1992)
Kirfa de Kreisker (Papillon Rouge, 1998)
Nike (Indoctro , 1995)
Oliver Metodo (Quidam De Revel, 1993)
Peanuts Z (Paladin des Ifs x Almé, 1994)
Picasso Z (1997)
Questro (Quick Star, 1994)
Quorum Itapuan (Furioso II, 1990)
San Diego (1991)
Tijl van het Pallieterland
Fantastique (1996)

Alvaro Affonso De Miranda Neto Competition Results

74 - World Equestrian Games, Round 2 - Team final and 2 indiv. Two rounds - 31/08/2006 - Nike
10 - World Equestrian Games, Team - 31/08/2006 - Nike
53 - World Equestrian Games, Round 1 - Team final and 2 indiv. Two rounds - 30/08/2006 - Nike
36 - World Equestrian Games, Team and individual Speed and handiness - 29/08/2006 - Nike
32 - Cannes, Cannes Grand Prix - 10/06/2006 - Tijl van het Pallieterland
09 - Saint Tropez, Grand Prix - 05/06/2006 - Tijl van het Pallieterland
02 - Saint Tropez, 6/7 Years Mixed comp. - 05/06/2006 - Babouche
01 - Saint Tropez, 1.45 Against the clock - 04/06/2006 - Picasso Z
07 - Saint Tropez, VDL Groep Prix - 6/7 Years Two phases - 03/06/2006 - Babouche
01 - Saint Tropez, 1.35 Two phases - 03/06/2006 - Peanuts Z
03 - Aachen, Miele Youngster Cup - 7/8 Years Against the clock - 20/05/2006 - Kirfa de Kreisker
23 - , Grand Prix - 13/05/2006 - Picasso Z
23 - , Grand Prix - 13/05/2006 - Picasso Z
06 - Fontaineblea, Prix Banque Société Générale - 1.40 Against the clock - 30/04/2006 - Kirfa de Kreisker
27 - Fontaineblea, Grand Prix - 30/04/2006 - Tijl van het Pallieterland
37 - Hasselt, Grand Prix - 26/02/2006 - Tijl van het Pallieterland
04 - Hasselt, Prijs Flandria Rent - 1.40 Mixed comp. - 25/02/2006 - Picasso Z
09 - Hasselt, Prijs Carlsberg - 1.40 Two phases - 24/02/2006 - Kirfa de Kreisker
02 - Rotterdam, Minolta Prijs - Table C - 31/08/2004 - Questro
10 - Olympics, Team - 27/08/2004 - Countdown
25 - Olympics, Individual - 27/08/2004 - Countdown
03 - Rotterdam, Petroplus Prijs - 31/08/2002 - Oliver Metodo
58 - World Equestrian Games, Individual - 23/08/2002 - San Diego
09 - World Equestrian Games, Team - 23/08/2002 - San Diego
03 - Olympics, Team - 30/07/2000 - Aspen Joter
51 - Olympics, Individual - 29/07/2000 - Aspen Joter
01 - Aachen, Prize of ELSA AG - 14/07/2000 - Aspen Joter
02 - Aachen, Accom-Prize - 16/06/2000 - Quorum Itapuan
01 - Panamerican Games, Team - 08/08/1999 - Aspen Joter
01 - Aachen, Prize of Kreis Aachen - 01/07/1999 - Quorum Itapuan
2 - St. Gallen, Nations Cup - 27/05/1999 - Aspen Joter
04 - Olympia International Horse Show, Grand Prix - 19/12/1998 - Aspen Joter
10 - Berlin, Berlin Grand Prix - 23/11/1998 - Aspen Joter
53 - World Equestrian Games, Individual - 23/08/1998 - Aspen Joter
05 - World Equestrian Games, Team - 23/08/1998 - Aspen Joter
8 - Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen-Preis - 13/08/1998 - Caroffna
3 - Aachen, Lambertz-Prize - 11/08/1998 - Quorum Itapuan
5 - Aachen, Prize of Aachener - 11/08/1998 - Caroffna
4 - Aachen, Prize of ELSA AG - 11/08/1998 - Aspen Joter
13 - Aachen, Preis von Europa - 23/07/1998 - Aspen Joter
10 - Geesteren, Grand Prix - 17/07/1998 - Caroffna
4 - Aachen, Nations Cup - 14/07/1998 - Aspen Joter
06 - The Royal Show, Falsterbo Grand Prix - 14/07/1998 - Aspen Joter
03 - La Baule, Nations Cup - 06/05/1998 - Aspen Joter
15 - Geneva, World Cup Qualifier - 07/12/1997 - Aspen Joter
10 - Stuttgart, Mercedes Masters - 18/11/1997 - Aspen Joter
01 - Göteborg, Grand Prix - 26/08/1997 - Aspen Joter
05 - Aachen, Nations Cup - 08/07/1997 - Aspen Joter
09 - Oberanven, Grand Prix - 26/08/1996 - Caroffna
08 - Olympics, Individual - 29/07/1996 - Aspen Joter
03 - Olympics, Team - 28/07/1996 - Aspen Joter
18 - Aachen, Grand Prix - 19/06/1996 - Aspen Joter
3 - Zurich, Zurich Grand Prix - 25/03/1996 - Aspen Joter

Alvaro Alfonso de Miranda Neto (born 5 February 1973) is an Olympic-class Brazilian show jumping rider. He is married to Athina Onassis Roussel. He is president of the organizing committee behind the Athina Onassis International Horse Show, which debuted in 2007 as the fifth stage of the Global Champions Tour in Sao Paulo. In 2008, the AOIHS-Sao Paulo event was the final phase of the tour. For the tour in 2009, the host city of the AOIHS was Rio de Janeiro.

Miranda is the son of businessman Ricardo Miranda and his first wife, psychologist Elisabeth "Beth" Neto.

With two brothers and a sister, Miranda grew up in Brazil, though a young boy in 1983, he began training for competitive show jumping at Nelson Pessoa`s prestigious riding school in Belgium. Miranda has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Rio Branco College. He studied for one year at a university in Brussels. He left school after one year of study to devote himself fully to his sport. He told Isto Gente (a Brazilian magazine) in February 2003 that his mother was disappointed at first with this decision, but now he has no regrets because he has been doing what he loves. At that time, his sponsors (including Visa and Audi) paid for his horses

Miranda is a four-time Olympic rider and two-time Olympic medalist. His Brazilian team won bronze medals at the 2000 Summer and 1996 Summer Olympic Games. At both the Atlanta and Sydney Games, he rode "Aspen Joter," a stallion who was born in 1985. He partnered himself with "Countdown" (b.1992) for Brazil at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also participated at the 2003 Pan American Games.

He is a FEI-class, grand-prix level rider. Every year since 1998, he has competed in the FEI World Equestrian Games.

In June 2009, Miranda ranked #2 in the Monte Carlo grand prix of the Global Champions Tour. He ranked 18th, with 32 points, leading into the GCT final in Doha, Qatar in November 2009. His performance in Doha (November 1114, 2009) was unremarkable at first, but he gained third place in the final, an event with a purse of 300,000.

In November 2009, Miranda (on AD Picolien Zeldenrust) was the third place winner of the Global Champions Tour final in Doha. He actually had the fastest time, but his penalty placed him behind Michel Robert (first place) and Jos Lansink (second place).

In December 2009, Miranda (riding AD Peanuts) won the Salon du Cheval - Ceneca Trophy at the Gucci Masters in Villepinte, just north of Paris.

He married firstly Sibele (alternately spelled Cibele) Dorsa, a fashion model, by whom he has a daughter, Viviane, who was born on the first of January 2000.

In December 2005, he married secondly Athina Onassis Roussel, who legally changed her name the following year to Athina Onassis Miranda. Miranda`s longtime friend and fellow jumping rider Rodrigo Pessoa served as the best man at the wedding



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20 - Barcelona, Grand Prix - 04/06/2006 - Caline
06 - Barcelona, 1.45 Mixed comp. - 02/06/2006 - Caline
08 - Barcelona, 1.35 Against the clock - 02/06/2006 - Don Grossy Z
05 - Barcelona, 1.30 Two phases - 02/06/2006 - Balthus
11 - Barcelona, Grand Prix - 11/12/2005 - Don Grossy Z
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