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Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas OLY [ 3 ] (born December 31, 1995 [ 4 ]) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2012 Olympic all-around champion and the 2015 World all-around silver medalist. She was a member of the gold-winning teams at both the 2012 and the 2016 Summer Olympics, dubbed the " Fierce Five " and the "Final Five " by ...
Kaetlyn Liddy. July 22, 2024 at 4:18 PM. 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% ...
Website. ShawnJohnson.com. Shawn Johnson East (born Shawn Machel Johnson; January 19, 1992) is an American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist. Johnson is also the 2007 all-around World Champion, and a five-time Pan American Games gold medalist ...
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. She was Béla and Márta Károlyi 's first elite athlete in the United States, helping establish their coaching ...
At the London Games, Douglas was a member of the "Fierce Five," which won gold in the team all-around, the first U.S. women's gymnastics team to do so since the "Magnificent Seven" in 1996.
The Magnificent Seven was the 1996 United States Olympic women's gymnastics team that won the first-ever gold medal for the United States in the women's team competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The seven members of the team were Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu, Dominique Dawes, Kerri Strug, Amy Chow, Jaycie Phelps, and team ...
Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles said it “broke my heart” to see a young Black girl passed over for a medal at a gymnastics ceremony in Ireland, footage of which has gone viral.
Sunisa "Suni" Lee (/ s uː ˈ n iː s ə ˈ s uː n i / soo-NEE-sə SOO-nee; née Phabsomphou; born March 9, 2003) [1] [2] is an American artistic gymnast.She is the 2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and the 2024 Olympic all-around and uneven bars bronze medalist.