David Luca Durante (born June 26, 1980) is an American

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

. He is the 2007 U.S. All-Around champion and was one of the three alternates to the

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. He competed at the

2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 40th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar r ...

and was a member of the 4th-place-finishing American team. Durante holds dual American-Italian citizenship. Durante graduated from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 2002 with a major in human biology and a minor in psychology.

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* * 1980 births Living people American male artistic gymnasts People from Garwood, New Jersey American people of Italian descent Stanford University alumni Gymnasts at the 2003 Pan American Games Gymnasts at the 2007 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Stanford Cardinal men's gymnasts 21st-century American people {{US-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub