1. Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas was born on December 31,1995 and is an American artistic gymnast.
72 Facts About Gabby Douglas
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Gabby Douglas is the 2012 Olympic all-around champion and the 2015 World all-around silver medalist.
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Gabby Douglas 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 the media, respectively.
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Gabby Douglas was a member of the gold-winning American teams at the 2011 and the 2015 World Championships.
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Gabby Douglas was the 2012 US champion on uneven bars.
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Gabby Douglas is the first African American to win an Olympic individual all-around title, and the first US gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics in 2012.
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Gabby Douglas has written a book about her life and what it takes to be an Olympic gold medalist by determination and perseverance.
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Gabby Douglas has two older sisters, Arielle and Joyelle, and one older brother, Johnathan.
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Gabby Douglas began training in gymnastics at age six when her sister convinced their mother to enroll her in classes.
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At the age of eight, Gabby Douglas won the Level 4 all-around gymnastics title at the 2004 Virginia State Championships.
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However, Gabby Douglas struggled to fit in because of the separation from her family and hometown.
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Gabby Douglas gives people talent", and "I love sharing about my faith.
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Gabby Douglas made her international debut in 2008 at the US Classic in Houston, Texas, where she placed 10th place in the all-around rankings.
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Gabby Douglas went on to compete at the 2008 Visa Championships in Boston, Massachusetts.
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In 2009, Gabby Douglas suffered a fracture in the growth plate of her hand start.
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Gabby Douglas competed at the 2010 Nastia Liukin Supergirl Cup, a televised Level 10 meet held in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she placed fourth all-around.
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At the 2010 US Junior National Championships, Gabby Douglas won the silver medal on balance beam, placed fourth all-around and on vault, and tied for eighth on floor exercise.
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At the 2010 Pan American Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico, Gabby Douglas won the uneven bars title, and she won a share of the US team gold medal.
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In October, at age 14, Gabby Douglas moved into the home of Missy Parton in West Des Moines, Iowa, to train under Liang Chow, the former coach of 2007 World Champion and 2008 Summer Olympics gold medalist Shawn Johnson.
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Gabby Douglas was impressed when Chow was able to teach her how to perform the Amanar vault in a single afternoon.
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Gabby Douglas considered a move to Texas to train with a renowned coach there, but after that coach declined to train her out of loyalty to Walker, Gabby Douglas selected Chow.
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Chow was initially skeptical, since Gabby Douglas had been just one of hundreds of children at the clinic in Virginia Beach.
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Gabby Douglas couldn't do much during this time, but this allowed her to improve her bar skills.
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At the City of Jesolo Trophy in Italy, Gabby Douglas was part of the US team that won gold.
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Gabby Douglas placed second on floor, tied for third on beam, and placed fourth in the all-around and on vault.
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Gabby Douglas earned the silver medal in uneven bars at the CoverGirl Classic in Chicago.
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At the 2011 US National Championships in St Paul, Minnesota, Gabby Douglas tied for third on bars and placed seventh all-around.
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At the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, Gabby Douglas shared in the team gold medal won by the US Gabby Douglas placed fifth in uneven bars.
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At the 2012 US National Championships in June, Gabby Douglas won the gold medal in uneven bars, silver in the all-around, and bronze in floor.
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Marta Karolyi, the National Team Coordinator for USA Gymnastics, nicknamed Gabby Douglas the "Flying Squirrel" for her aerial performance on the uneven bars.
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At the 2012 Olympic Trials held in San Jose, California on July 1, Gabby Douglas placed first in the all-around rankings, securing the only guaranteed spot on the women's Olympic gymnastic team.
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Gabby Douglas was the only gymnast on the team to compete on all four apparatus during the finals of the team competition.
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Gabby Douglas then won the gold medal in the individual all-around, becoming the first African-American woman, as well as the first woman of color of any nationality, to win the event.
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Gabby Douglas finished eighth in uneven bars, and seventh in balance beam.
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Gabby Douglas is the first all-around champion to fail to medal in an individual event since women's gymnastics was added to the Olympics in 1952.
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In mid-April 2014, Gabby Douglas returned to Iowa to train once more with Coach Chow, in an attempt to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
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In March 2015, Gabby Douglas returned to international competition at the 2015 City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy.
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Gabby Douglas helped the USA win gold in the team competition and placed 4th all-around behind defending World Champion Simone Biles, newcomer Bailie Key, and Olympic teammate Aly Raisman.
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Gabby Douglas placed second on uneven bars behind Madison Kocian and ahead of Bailie Key with a score of 15.400, third on balance beam behind Biles and Olympic teammate Aly Raisman with a score of 14.900, and second on floor exercise behind Biles and ahead of Key and Nichols with a score of 15.000.
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Gabby Douglas started Night 1 on vault and despite a hop backwards on her double-twisting Yurchenko vault, she scored a 15.150.
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Gabby Douglas had low landings and almost fell on her tucked full-in and scored a 13.850 to end Night 1 in 3rd with a total all-around score of 58.700.
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On Night 2, Gabby Douglas started on bars where she excelled on her inbar-stalder pirouettes and her piked Tkachev-Pak Salto connection but she took a large step forward on her double layout dismount and almost fell.
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Gabby Douglas scored 14.200 on the event for a two-day total of 28.650, placing 9th on the event and scoring.
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Gabby Douglas scored a 14.800 and totaled her score to 28.650, placing her 6th on the event.
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Gabby Douglas was named to the Senior National Team for the first time since 2012 and received an invite to the 2015 Worlds Selection Camp in September.
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On October 8,2015, it was announced that Gabby Douglas had been selected as a member of the 2015 US Women's World Championship team.
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At the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, Gabby Douglas shared in the team gold medal won by the US She qualified for the individual all-around in 3rd place, and to the uneven bars final in 6th place.
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Gabby Douglas won the silver in the all-around, becoming the first reigning Olympic all-around champion since 2001 to return to the sport and win a world championships medal.
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Gabby Douglas competed at the 2016 Secret US Classic in Hartford, Connecticut, on June 4.
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Gabby Douglas did not compete in the all-around competition, which was won by Fierce Five teammate Aly Raisman.
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Gabby Douglas competed on UB and BB, scoring a 15.650 on UB to finish in 3rd behind Ashton Locklear and Madison Kocian on that event.
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On July 10, Gabby Douglas was named to the team for the 2016 Olympics, alongside Simone Biles, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian, and Aly Raisman.
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Gabby Douglas scored a 15.166 on the vault, a 15.766 on the uneven bars, a 14.833 on the balance beam, and a 14.366 on the floor exercise.
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Gabby Douglas narrowly missed advancing to the all-around final to defend her title despite tallying the third-highest score in the preliminaries, since she was outscored by teammates Biles and Raisman and rules only allow two competitors from one NOC, similar to Wieber four years ago in London.
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Gabby Douglas changed coaches during the competition, but kept her assistant coach.
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Gabby Douglas helped the United States win a second consecutive gold medal in the team event, which was her third Olympic gold medal.
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In October 2022, several gymnastics media outlets, such as The Gymternet and Gymcastic, reported that Gabby Douglas had recently returned to training, this time at WOGA.
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In February 2023, WOGA coach Valeri Liukin confirmed to NBC that Gabby Douglas has been training at his gym, and in July 2023, Gabby Douglas herself confirmed via Instagram that she had resumed training with the goal of competing at the 2024 Olympics.
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Gabby Douglas had been slated to make her competitive return in February at the 2024 Winter Cup, however she withdrew after testing positive for COVID-19 two days prior to the competition.
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Gabby Douglas finished in second place on the vault, but made mistakes on uneven bars and floor exercise and finished with an all-around score of 50.650, short of the 51.000 score needed to qualify to the all-around at the national championships.
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Gabby Douglas next competed at the 2024 Core Hydration Classic in Hartford.
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In May 2024, Gabby Douglas was injured during training and withdrew from competing for a spot on the Olympic team in Paris.
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Gabby Douglas became the fourth gymnast to receive the honor.
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Gabby Douglas was a nominee for the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year.
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In June 2013, Gabby Douglas received two BET Awards for her accomplishment.
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In September 2012, Nintendo announced that Gabby Douglas would be part of a new ad campaign for New Super Mario Bros.
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On September 4, Gabby Douglas led the Pledge of Allegiance at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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In December 2012, Gabby Douglas released her autobiography, Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith.
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The Gabby Douglas Story aired on Lifetime on February 1,2014, starring Imani Hakim.
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Gabby Douglas appeared disguised as a gray-haired, aspiring gym owner in a "Celebrity Edition" episode of Undercover Boss that first aired on May 11,2018.
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In 2020, Gabby Douglas competed on The Masked Singer spin-off The Masked Dancer as "Cotton Candy" and was declared the winner of the season.
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Gabby Douglas is set to guest star as herself with Dominique Dawes and Laurie Hernandez in the episode "A Perfect 10" of the second season of the Disney+ animated series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, judging a gymnastics competition.