Álvaro Alfonso de Miranda Neto
| Álvaro de Miranda Neto | |
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Álvaro de Miranda Neto with Ashleigh Drossel Dan
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Álvaro Affonso de Miranda Neto 5 February 1973 São Paulo, Brazil |
| Occupation | Brazilian Olympic equestrian athlete Owner, AD Sport Horses |
| Height | 1.87 |
| Weight | 83 |
| Spouse(s) | Athina Onassis (2005–2016) |
| Children | Viviane de Miranda |
| Parent(s) | Ricardo Miranda Elisabeth Neto |
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1996 Atlanta | Team jumping |
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2000 Sydney | Team jumping |
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 was married to Athina Onassis. 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 São Paulo. In 2008, the AOIHS-São 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 Elizabeth "Beth" Pires de Castro Miranda.
Together with full siblings Anna Luiza and Paulo Fernando from his father's first marriage and half-siblings Beatriz and Ricardo from his second, Doda grew up in Brazil, but while still quite young 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.
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.
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