Alexa Loo

Alexa Loo (born October 6, 1972) is a Canadian snowboarder and city council member for Richmond, British Columbia City Council. As a snowboarder, she competed in the parallel giant slalom at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.[1]

Alexa Loo
盧仙泳
Member of the Richmond, British Columbia City Council
Assumed office
2014
Personal details
Born (1972-10-06) October 6, 1972
Richmond, British Columbia
NationalityCanadian
Political partyBC Liberal
Children2
Professionsnowboarder

Snowboarding career highlights
  • Loo became the first Canadian woman to earn a medal in alpine snowboarding when she won a bronze medal in the woman's parallel giant slalom (PGS) at the World Cup in Plan de Corones, Italy.
  • Finished ninth in PGS at the World Cup Lac Beauport, Quebec.
  • Gold medalist in PGS at the Nor Am Cup in Copper Mountain (Colorado).
  • Eighth in PGS at the 2005 World Cup, Tandadalen, Sweden.
  • 16th in PGS at the 2005 World Cup in Sapporo-Makomanai, Japan.
  • 17th in PGS at the 2005 World Cup in Bardonecchia, Italy.
  • Silver medalist in parallel slalom at the 2005 NorAm Cup PSL, Sun Peaks, British Columbia.
  • 14th in PGS at the 2004 World Cup, Soelden, Austria.
  • Finished 20th overall in the PGS at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.

Loo served as the athlete representative to the International Ski Federation (FIS) and for many years sat on the board of directors of AthletesCAN [2] - the association of Canada's national team athletes. She graduated from the University of British Columbia, where she competed as both a rower and swimmer for the Thunderbirds, in 1994.[3]

Work in local politics

Loo was elected as a city councillor for Richmond, British Columbia City Council in the 2014 municipal elections, and was re-elected for a second term in 2018.[4]

Jump to Provincial Politics

Loo ran in the 2020 British Columbia general election held on October 24, 2020. She lost in the preliminary count by 184 votes, however mail-in votes have yet to be counted.

Electoral history

Provincial Elections
2020 British Columbia general election: Richmond South Centre
Party Candidate Votes%±%Expenditures
New DemocraticHenry Yao6,74350.67+10.39$37,030.55
LiberalAlexa Loo6,56449.33+0.61$50,107.69
Total valid votes 13,307100.00–
Rejected ballots   
Turnout   
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC[5][6]

Municipal Elections

Top 8 candidates elected - Incumbents marked with "(X)". Elected members' names are in bold

2018 British Columbia municipal elections: Richmond City Council
Party Council candidate Vote %
  RITE RichmondCarol Day (X)20,8717.01
  Richmond Citizens' AssociationHarold Steves (X)19,1366.43
  Richmond Community CoalitionChak Au (X)18,0266.05
  Richmond FirstBill McNulty (X)17,2425.79
  Richmond Citizens' AssociationKelly Greene16,4645.53
  Richmond FirstLinda McPhail (X)15,5215.21
  RITE RichmondMichael Wolfe13,6274.58
  IndependentAlexa Loo (X)13,2124.44
  Richmond FirstDerek Dang (X)13,1154.40
  Richmond FirstAndy Hobbs12,3364.14
  Richmond Citizens' AssociationJudie Schneider11,6723.92
  Richmond Community CoalitionKen Johnston (X)11,1613.75
  Richmond Community CoalitionJonathan Ho11,1403.74
  Richmond Citizens' AssociationJack Trovato10,9153.67
  Richmond FirstSunny Ho8,9333.00
  RITE RichmondNiti Sharma8,9172.99
  RITE RichmondHenry Yao8,4672.84
  Richmond FirstPeter Liu8,3572.81
  Richmond Community CoalitionParm Bains7,9732.68
  IndependentJohn Roston7,9612.67
  Richmond Community CoalitionMelissa Zhang7,7082.38
  IndependentKerry Starchuk6,9592.34
  IndependentJason Tarnow5,7201.92
  IndependentAdil Awan4,2781.44
  IndependentManjit Singh4,1341.39
  IndependentDennis Page3,4781.17
  IndependentAndy Chiang3,3371.12
  IndependentTheresa Head3,2511.09
  IndependentPatrick J. Saunders2,2410.75
  IndependentZhe Zhang2,2410.75
2014 British Columbia municipal elections: Richmond City Council
Party Council candidate Vote %
  Richmond FirstBill McNulty17,4177.08
  Richmond Community CoalitionChak Au15,7426.40
  Richmond FirstLinda McPhail15,6796.37
  Richmond FirstDerek Dang14,8446.03
  IndependentHarold Steves14,4175.86
  Rite RichmondCarol Day13,3895.44
  Richmond Community CoalitionKen Johnston12,7925.20
  IndependentAlexa Loo12,5955.12
  Richmond FirstAndy Hobbs12,0134.88
  Rite RichmondMichael Wolfe11,7654.78
  Richmond Community CoalitionDan Baxter9,9524.04
  Richmond Community CoalitionKirby Graeme9,8694.01
  Richmond Community CoalitionSal Bhullar8,9653.64
  IndependentDave Semple8,5663.48
  Richmond FirstElsa Wong8,5003.45
  Richmond Community CoalitionHelen Quan8,3753.40
  Richmond ReformSunny Ho6,9262.81
  Renew RichmondGrace Tsang6,2222.53
  IndependentRoy Sakata5,8242.37
  IndependentJerome Dickey4,7081.91
  IndependentHenry Juin-Hsien Yao4,4121.79
  IndependentJennifer Huang3,9771.62
  Renew RichmondAdil Awan3,5871.46
  IndependentJanos Bergman3,2481.32
  IndependentDon Montgomery2,9971.22
  IndependentLaura Nastasa2,2950.93
  IndependentPatrick S. Saunders2,1080.86
  IndependentKristian von Schalburg1,6190.66
  IndependentGary Yuill1,4060.57
  IndependentLee Gildemeester1,2580.51
  IndependentJun L. Wuyan6940.28

References
  1. Olympic results
  2. "AthletesCAN website - Prior Board Members List". Archived from the original on 2014-02-13. Retrieved 2014-11-19.
  3. Drexhage, Glenn. "Hooked on racing: Grad's grace under pressure". UBC Reports. University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  4. "Veteran Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie wins sixth term". Vancouver Sun. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  5. "2020 Provincial General Election Final Voting Results". electionsbcenr.blob.core.windows.net. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  6. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
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