Allana Slater
Allana Amy Slater (born 3 April 1984 in Perth, Western Australia) is a retired Australian artistic gymnast. The Australian senior all-around National Champion in 2000, 2003 and 2004 and a multiple medalist at the Commonwealth Games, Slater is one of Australia's most internationally successful gymnasts. Early life Allana Slater was born in Western Australia on 3 April 1984. Her father was killed in 1997 when SilkAir Flight 185 crashed in Indonesia while she was competing in the Junior Pacific Alliance Championships. Gymnastics career Slater competed at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, receiving Australia's first ever Commonwealth Games team gold medal. Individually, she also won two silver medals in the all around and floor exercise finals. Slater and her Australian teammates finished fifth at the 1999 World Championships. At the same competition, Slater earned the highest place individual world ranking ever achieved by an Australian gymnast when she finished 9th in the individual all around. In the most closely contested National Championship in Australian Gymnastics history, Slater pipped Trudy McIntosh with her last event to win her first National title early in 2000. In July of that year, at the Olympic Trials, Slater won to secure a place on