Dominique Dawes

Dominique Margaux Dawes is a retired American artistic gymnast. Known in the gymnastics community as Awesome Dawesome, she was a 10year member of the U.S. national gymnastics team, the 1994 U.S. allaround senior National Champion, a threetime Olympian, a World Championships silver medalist and a member of the goldmedal winning Magnificent Seven at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Dawes is also notable as being the first AfricanAmerican woman to win an individual Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics, and the first black person of any nationality or gender to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. She is also one of only three female American gymnasts, along with Muriel Grossfeld and Linda MethenyMulvihill, to compete in three Olympics and was part of three Olympic medalwinning teams Barcelona 1992 , Atlanta 1996 , and Sydney 2000 . Dawes is the first female gymnast to be a part of three Olympic medal winning teams since Lyudmila Turischeva won gold in Mexico City , Munich , and Montreal . S

Dominique Margaux Dawes was born in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 20, 1976 to Don and Loretta Dawes. She has an older sister, Danielle and a younger brother, Don Jr. Dominique Dawes participated in the Olympic games.

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