Dominique Dawes

About Dominique Dawes

From 1992 to 2000, he won three Olympic medals with three different teams, including the team gold in 1996.

Dominique Margaux Dawes is a retired American gymnast. Known in the gymnastics community as `` Awesome Dawesome '', she was a member of the US National Gymnastics Team for 10 years, 1994 Global National Championships of the United States. Ky, Three-time Olympic, Silver Medal and World Bronze Champion as a member of the "Magnificent Seven" gold medalist team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Dawes is also noted as the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic medal in gymnastics and as the first black person of any nationality or gender to win an Olympic fitness gold medal. tool. She is also one of three American female gymnastics, along with Muriel Grossfeld and Linda Metheny-Mulvihill, to compete in three Olympics and is part of their medal teams: Barcelona 1992 , Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000. She is also the Olympic bronze medalist at the ground exercise at the Atlanta Games.

Born	November 20, 1976, Silver Spring, Maryland
Years on national team	10 (1989–1998, 2000)
Discipline	WAG
Nickname(s)	Awesome Dawesome
Level	Senior International
Club	Hill's Angels
Former coach(es)	Kelli Hill
Retired	September 19, 2000

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Trivia

She was the first African-American athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics.

Dominique Dawes before fame

Her parents enrolled her in gymnastics after her tumbling lesson was canceled.

Achievement of Dominique Dawes

She was the first African-American female gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$2.5 Million

Dominique Dawes family life

She is the daughter of Don and Loretta Dawes and has a sister, Danielle, and a brother, Don Jr.

Associations of Dominique Dawes

Shannon Miller was her teammate at the 1993 World Gymnastics Championships.

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