Dominique Dawes

Dominique Dawes
Dawes in 1996
Personal information
Full nameDominique Margaux Dawes
Nickname(s)Awesome Dawesome[1]
Country represented United States
Born (1976-11-20) November 20, 1976 (age 47)
Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.
Height5 ft 2 in (157 cm)
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior International
Years on national team1989–1998; 2000 (USA)
ClubHill's Angels
Former coach(es)Kelli Hill
RetiredSeptember 19, 2000
Medal record
Representing  United States
Women's artistic gymnastics
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta Team
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Barcelona Team
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Atlanta Floor
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1993 Birmingham Balance Beam
Silver medal – second place 1993 Birmingham Uneven Bars
Silver medal – second place 1994 Dortmund Team
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Puerto Rico Balance Beam
Co-Chair of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition
In office
2010–2017
Serving with Drew Brees
Preceded byJohn Burke[2]
Personal details
OccupationGymnast, actress, singer
WebsiteDominiqueDawes.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.[3] 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).

  1. ^ "Dominique Dawes' unconventional legacy". Espn.com. 21 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Appointments to President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports". whitehouse.gov (Press release). June 20, 2002 – via National Archives.
  3. ^ "Olympedia - Dominique Dawes". 2022-12-27.