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Douglas is the first African American to win an Olympic individual all-around title, [6] [7] and the first U.S. gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics in 2012. With a total of six Olympic and World Championship medals, she is the eleventh most decorated U.S. female gymnast of all time.
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 ...
Dianne Patrice Durham (June 17, 1968 – February 4, 2021) was an American artistic gymnast.In 1983, she won the all-around senior title at the women's US National Championships, becoming the first African American athlete to do so.
When Dominique Dawes competed in the Olympic trials for the 1992 Barcelona Games, she was the first Black gymnast to ever qualify. Three decades later, 80% of the U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics ...
Gabby Douglas is already one of the most decorated gymnasts in Olympic history as a three-time Olympic gold medalist. During the 2012 London Games, Douglas became the first Black gymnast to win ...
Gilberto Lopez-Jimenez, a 21-year-old sports fan from El Paso, Texas, had more than medals in mind as he rooted for Dominican American gymnast Hezly Rivera and Mexican gymnast Alexa Moreno.
Kaylia Nemour (Arabic: كيليا نمور, romanized: Kailiya Numur; born 30 December 2006) is an Algerian [2] artistic gymnast. She currently represents Algeria internationally. She is the 2024 Olympic champion on the uneven bars and the first gymnast from any African nation to win
Getty. Gabby Douglas made history in 2012 when she became the first black gymnast to win an individual gold medal, as well as the first woman of color of any nationality to win the event.