Gabrielle Douglas

Gabrielle Douglas
Douglas at a 2012 Mets Rockies baseball game
Personal information
Surname:	Gabrielle Christina Victoria "Gabby" Douglas
Nationality:	United States
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s:	Uneven bars
Society:	Buckeye Gymnastics Club Westerville
Trainer:	Kittia Carpenter (personal), Martha Karolyi (national)
Birthday:	31st December 1995 (age 24)
Place of birth:	Virginia Beach
Size:	150 cm
Weight:	41 kg
Medals
Olympic games gold London 2012 team gold London 2012 Individual all-around gold Rio 2016 team  World championships gold Tokyo 2011 team gold Glasgow 2015 team silver Glasgow 2015 Individual all-around

Gabrielle Christina Victoria "Gabby" Douglas (born December 31, 1995 in Virginia Beach , Virginia ) is an American gymnast . She did gymnastics with Liang Chow, who also trained Shawn Johnson. At the 2012 Summer Olympics , she won two gold medals in team and individual all-around. This makes her the first African American woman to win this discipline.

Athletic career

On her special device, the uneven bars , she celebrated two victories at the Pan American Championships in 2010 and at the Pacific Rim Championships in 2012 .

After switching to the adult division in 2011, she won the gold medal with the US team at the 2011 World Gymnastics Championships . In 2012 Olympic apparatus gymnastics , 16-year-old Douglas won two Olympic golds with the US team and in the individual all -around in London . In the individual competitions on the uneven bars and the balance beam, she could not achieve any further medals. In the apparatus gymnastics , Douglas won Olympic gold with the US team.

In 2015 she returned to top-class sport and won the gold medal in the team all-around and the silver medal in the individual all-around at the World Championships in Glasgow.

Abuse in the US gymnastics team

In November 2017, as part of the #MeToo campaign , Douglas made public that she had been abused by the former team doctor of the American gymnastics team, Larry Nassar . In the course of the MeToo campaign, McKayla Maroney made public in mid-October 2017 that she was also a victim of Nassar. Aly Raisman followed suit at the beginning of November and Simone Biles in January 2018 .

The newspaper Indystar had already reported on the abuse by Nassar in August 2016 . Shortly thereafter, former gymnast Rachael Denhollander and an Olympic medalist, whose name remained anonymous, filed a complaint against Nassar. In February 2017, Jamie Danztscher reported about the abuse by the team doctor. In April 2017, it was revealed that dozens more girls had been molested by Nassar.

Awards

• Associated Press Sportswoman of the Year : 2012

Web links

• official homepage
• Gabrielle Douglas in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jerry Hinnen: Gabby Douglas wins all-around gold medal , CBS Sports. 2nd August 2012. 
2. ↑ Kelly Whitesid: USA's Gabby Douglas takes gold in women's all-around . In: USA Today , August 2, 2012. 
3. ↑ Liz Clarke: Gabby Douglas wins gold in women's gymnastics all-around; Aly Raisman loses tie for bronze . In: The Washington Post , August 2, 2012. 
4. ↑ Americans live up to the hype as US wins 1st Olympic gold in women's team gymnastics since 1996 . July 31, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
5. ↑ "Some things were extremely painful" FAZ from November 21, 2017
6. ↑ #MeToo: Raped by teammate , on dw.com, October 18, 2017.
7. ↑ Gymnastics doctor accused of sexual assault loses license CBS of April 7, 2017