Dominique Dawes
Olympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta Team Bronze 2000 Sydney Team Bronze 1996 Atlanta Floor Bronze 1992 Barcelona Team World Championships Silver 1994 Dortmund Team Silver 1993 Birmingham Balance Beam Silver 1993 Birmingham Uneven Bars Bronze 1996 Puerto Rico Balance Beam U.S. Senior Nationals Gold 1996 Knoxville Vault Gold 1996 Knoxville Uneven Bars Gold 1996 Knoxville Balance Beam Gold 1996 Knoxville Floor Gold 1995 New Orleans Uneven Bars Gold 1995 New Orleans Floor Gold 1994 Nashville All-Around Gold 1994 Nashville Vault Gold 1994 Nashville Uneven Bars Gold 1994 Nashville Balance Beam Gold 1994 Nashville Floor Gold 1993 Salt Lake City Vault Gold 1993 Salt Lake City Balance Beam Gold 1992 Columbus Uneven Bars Gold 1991 Cincinnati Floor Silver 1993 Salt Lake City All-Around Silver 1993 Salt Lake City Floor Bronze 1995 New Orleans Balance Beam Bronze 1993 Salt Lake City Uneven Bars Dominique Margaux Dawes (born November 20, 1976) is a retired American artistic gymnast. Known in the gymnastics community as 'Awesome Dawesome,' she was 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 Championships silver medalist and a member of the gold-medal winning "Magnificent Seven" at the 1996 Summer Olympics. 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 three Olympic 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 Lyudmila Turischeva won gold in Mexico City (1968), Munich (1972), and Montreal (1976). Since Dawes, Svetlana Khorkina is the only gymnast to accomplish this feat, winning silver in Atlanta (1996) and Sydney (2000) and bronze in Athens (2004).