National Championships in In , at the age of 12, she was sent to Australia to compete in her first international meet, the Konica Grand Prix. By the early s, Dawes was achieving success both nationally and internationally. She placed 3rd in the all-around in the junior division at the U.
National Championships. Dominique Margaux Dawes born November 20, is a retired American artistic gymnast. Known in the gymnastics community as 'Awesome Dawesome,' she was a year member of the U. Dawes is also notable as being the first African-American 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 Metheny-Mulvihill, to compete in three Olympics and was part of their medal-winning teams: Barcelona bronze , Atlanta gold , and Sydney bronze. She is also the Olympic bronze medalist on floor exercise from the Atlanta games. Dawes is the first female gymnast to be a part of three Olympic-medal-winning teams since Ludmilla Tourischeva won gold in Mexico City , Munich , and Montreal Since Dawes, Svetlana Khorkina is the only gymnast to accomplish this feat, winning silver in Atlanta and Sydney , and bronze in Athens She enrolled in gymnastics at age 6 with coach Kelli Hill and won her first competition at age 9.
In high school, she moved to Gaithersburg, Maryland to be closer to her coach's gym. Dawes would finish her year on a positive note, however. She dominated the National Championships placing first in the all-around and all four event finals at the expense of rival Shannon Miller. It was the first year since that a gymnast had swept the competition. She went on to lead the American team to a silver medal at the World Team Championships in Dortmund, Germany posting the third highest all-around score in the process.
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Kerri Strug, 44 gymnast. Influencer Opportunity If you are a model, tiktoker, instagram Influencer We connect brands with social media talent to create quality sponsored content " Join Here ". Top 10 Top 10 Gymnasts of the year by vote. National Championships Dawes sweep all four event finals for the second time in her career making her the only gymnast ever to accomplish this feat twice.
Dawes also finished first at the Olympic trials, earning a berth on the Olympic team at the age of Dawes planned to attend Stanford University in fall but could not receive an athletic scholarship as she turned pro to train for the Olympics. Between and Dawes competed in various professional meets but retreated from elite competition.
She returned briefly in to participate in the Goodwill Games where she placed 19th in the Mixed Pairs event with Chainey Umphrey. However, she placed 9th all-around at U. Nationals and 7th at the Olympic Trials, and earned a spot on her third Olympic team.
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At the National Championships in , Dawes won all-around gold, as well as all four individual events vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.
She was the first gymnast to win all five gold medals there since Dawes again made the cut for the U. Olympic team. Thanks in part to Dawes' outstanding performance, the U. Dawes had been hoping to win an individual gold medal as well, and was devastated when a step out of bounds and a fall during her floor routine placed her out of medal contention during the all-around competition.
She did win an individual bronze medal for her floor performance, however, which made her the first African American to win an individual medal in women's gymnastics. In , Dawes came out of retirement to make the U.
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