Editing Dominique Dawes (section)

{{short description|American artistic gymnast}}
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{{Infobox gymnast
| name            = Dominique Dawes
| image           = Dominique Dawes 1.jpg
| caption         = Dawes in 1996
| full_name       = Dominique Margaux Dawes
| nickname        = Awesome Dawesome<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.espn.com/espnw/culture/story/_/id/17118998/the-unconventional-legacy-gymnast-dominique-dawes |title=Dominique Dawes' unconventional legacy |newspaper=Espn.com |date=21 July 2016}}</ref>
| country         = {{USA}}
| formercountry   = 
| birth_date      = {{nowrap|{{birth date and age|1976|11|20}}}}
| birth_place     = [[Silver Spring, Maryland]], U.S.
| death_date      = 
| death_place     = 
| height          = 5 ft 2 in
| discipline      = WAG
| natlteam        = 1989–1998; 2000 ([[United States women's national gymnastics team|USA]])
| club            = Hill's Angels
| gym             = 
| collegeteam     = 
| headcoach       = 
| assistcoach     = 
| formercoach     = [[Kelli Hill]]
| choreographer   = 
| eponymousskills = 
| retired         = September 19, 2000
| module          = 
  {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes
  | title         = Co-Chair of the [[President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition]]
  | alongside     = [[Drew Brees]]
  | term_start    = 2010
  | term_end      = 2017 
  | predecessor   = [[Trek Bicycle Corporation|John Burke]]<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/06/text/20020620-15.html |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |title=Appointments to President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |date=June 20, 2002}}</ref>
  | successor     = 
  | occupation    = Gymnast, actress, singer
  | website       = {{URL|www.dominiquedawes.com|DominiqueDawes.com}}
  }}
| show-medals     = yes
| medaltemplates  = 
{{MedalCountry | {{USA}} }}
{{MedalSport | Women's [[artistic gymnastics]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Olympic Games]] }}
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{{MedalGold | [[Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around|Team]] }}
{{MedalBronze | [[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around|Team]] }}
{{MedalBronze | [[Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's floor|Floor]] }}
{{MedalBronze | [[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]] | [[Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around|Team]] }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1993 Birmingham]] | Balance Beam }}
{{MedalSilver | [[1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1993 Birmingham]] | Uneven Bars }}
{{MedalSilver | [[1994 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (Team)|1994 Dortmund]] | Team }}
{{MedalBronze | [[1996 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1996 Puerto Rico]] | Balance Beam }}
}}

'''Dominique Margaux Dawes''' (born November 20, 1976) is a retired American [[artistic gymnastics|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 (gymnastics)|Magnificent Seven]]" team at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in [[Atlanta]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Dominique Dawes |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/29232 |date=2022-12-27}}</ref> 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|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).