MELBOURNE, Australia — Alexandra Orlando could be hear coming from 20 metres away.

As the rhythmic gymnast entered the media interview area Sunday at the Commonwealth Games, the six gold medals hanging around her neck clinked together like wind chimes.

The 19-year-old Toronto native captured four golds in the individual apparatus events Sunday, adding to the two she won in the team event and individual all-around earlier in the week.

``I don't think I'm ever, ever going to take them off,'' she joked as her medals shined against her glittery green and black costume. ``I really like them.

``They could become my new accessory.''

Canada won six medals Sunday, including a silver and bronze by teammate Yana Tsikaridze, to boost its overall total to 86 (26 gold, 29 silver, 31 bronze). That put the Canadian team third overall behind Australia's 221 (84-69-68) and England's 110 (36-40-34).

India, which will host the next Games in 2010, had 50 medals (22-17-11) to finish fourth.

As the Canadian team's most prolific medal winner of these Games, Orlando was named the flag-bearer for Sunday night's closing ceremonies.

Her accomplishment tied the Games record for most gold medals won by a single athlete at one Games. Australian swimmers Ian Thorpe in 2002, Susie O'Neill in 1998 and Canadian swimmer Graham Smith in Edmonton in 1978 also accomplished it.

``I can't believe it,'' she said of joining such elite company. ``All this hard work for 14 years has paid off.''

Canada's only other athletes competing on the final day of the Games were the road cyclists. Victoria's Gina Grain was the top Canadian on the women's side with a fourth-place finish while Ottawa's Gord Fraser was fifth in the men's event.

Orlando opened Sunday's competition by winning the rope event. She then won ball and clubs before completing the sweep with a victory in ribbon before 10,000 cheering spectators at the Rod Laver Arena.

After she was done her ribbon routine, Orlando waited in the training gym hoping her score of 13.775 would stand up.

``I'm always nervous until all the scores are out,'' she said. ``But I was really happy with my performance and my scores so I was confident.''

Tsikaridze, of Montreal, was second in ribbon and third in rope.

Canada has seen successful in rhythmic gymnastics in the past.

Vancouver's Lori Fung won the sport's first-ever Olympic gold medal in its debut at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Toronto's Erika-Leigh Stirton, one of Orlando's idols, won five golds and a silver in 1998 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the last time the sport was contested at the Commonwealth Games. Orlando said she had been communicating with Stirton by e-mail all week.

``She's a huge support for me,'' said Orlando. ``Whenever I have a chance, I love just talking to her. ``Anytime, I can call her. She just loves talking to the athletes.''

Now that the Games are over, Orlando can focus on the future.

``I head into some international competitions later this season,'' she said. ``This is going to put me on a little bit of a rush.

``It should be a good year.''

Prior to the Games, Orlando's best international results came at the 2005 world championships. She placed 18th overall among more than 100 gymnasts in the individual all-around competition and 16th in the ball event.

She's hoping to achieve a top-15 result at one of her events later in the year. But Orlando will have to beat much tougher competition than she faced here. Rhythmic gymnastics is dominated by eastern European countries, with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan all finishing in the top-10 in the team event at the 2005 world championships. Canada was 14th.

``It's harder for us to crack into that top-15 at the international stage,'' she said. ``So this (Commonwealth Games) is a great confidence booster for all these athletes here.''

In the women's 100-kilometre road race, Grain finished three minutes five seconds behind winner Nathalie Bates of Australia, who won in 2:56:08. Erinne Willock of Victoria was 11th, Amy Moore of Georgetown, Ont., was 15th, Susan Palmer-Komar of Hamilton was 19th, Mandy Poitras of Langley, B.C., was 22nd and Audrey Lemieux of Alma, Que., was 27th. Lyne Bessette, one of Canada's top medal hopefuls, was forced to withdraw from the Games after she injured her shoulder in a training accident.

Fraser was 38 seconds behind winner Mathew Hayman of Australia, who finished the men's 166-kilometre race in 4:05:09. Montreal's Martin Gilbert was ninth while Dominique Perras of Montreal was 15th and Svein Tuft of Langley, B.C., was 20th.

Fraser said he received great support from his teammates.

``I wish I could have paid then back with more than a fifth-place finish,'' he said. ``But we tried our best out here today and that's what matters.''

03:29ET 26-03-06