Dominique Dawes
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| Full name | Dominique Margaux Dawes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Awesome Dawesome | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | November 20, 1976 Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States (1989–1998; 2000 (USA)) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Hill's Angels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Kelli Hill | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | September 19, 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Co-Chair of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 2010–2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | John Burke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Gymnast, actress, singer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | DominiqueDawes.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dominique Margaux Dawes (born November 20, 1976) is a retired American artistic gymnast. Known in the gymnastics community as 'Awesome Dawesome', she was a 10-year member of the U.S. national gymnastics team, the 1994 U.S. all-around senior National Champion, a three-time Olympian, a World Championship silver and bronze medalist, and a member of the gold-medal-winning "Magnificent Seven" team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She is also the Olympic bronze medalist on floor exercise from the Atlanta games.
She is also one of only four female American gymnasts, along with Muriel Grossfeld, Linda Metheny-Mulvihill, and Simone Biles, to compete in three Olympics and was part of their medal-winning teams: Barcelona 1992 (bronze), Atlanta 1996 (gold), and Sydney 2000 (bronze). Dawes is the first female gymnast to be a part of three Olympic-medal-winning teams since Ludmilla Tourischeva won gold in Mexico City (1968), Munich (1972), and Montreal (1976). Since Dawes, Svetlana Khorkina and Simone Biles are the only gymnasts to accomplish this feat. Svetlana winning silver in Atlanta (1996) and Sydney (2000), and bronze in Athens (2004) and Simone winning gold in Rio (2016), silver in Tokyo (2020) and gold in Paris (2024).