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The Douglas family is the family of Gabby Douglas, the first African American woman to win the Olympic all-around gymnastics title, at London 2012. Her mother Natalie Hawkins and siblings Arielle, Joyelle and Johnathan shared her road to the Olympics on the reality series Douglas Family Gold.
Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas was born on 31 December 1995 in Newport News, Virginia, one of four children of Natalie Hawkins. Her father is Timothy Douglas, a staff sergeant in the Air National Guard who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gabby started gymnastics at six after her eldest sister, Arielle, persuaded their mother to sign her up for classes.
At 14 Gabby moved alone to West Des Moines, Iowa, to train with coach Liang Chow, living with a host family while her mother and siblings stayed in Virginia. The sacrifice paid off two years later in London.
The Douglas family became one of the best-known families in American sport after London 2012, when a teenager whose family had made real sacrifices for her training won the sport's biggest individual prize. In 2016 Oxygen aired Douglas Family Gold, a six-episode series following Gabby, her mother, her siblings and her grandmother as they balanced their own lives with her bid for the Rio Olympics, where she won a second team gold.
| Fact | Details |
|---|---|
| Family home | Virginia, United States |
| Best-known member | Gabby Douglas, artistic gymnast |
| Historic first | First African American Olympic all-around champion (2012) |
| Olympic golds | 2012 team and all-around, 2016 team |
| Television | Douglas Family Gold, Oxygen, 2016 (6 episodes) |
| Books | Grace, Gold and Glory (2012), Raising the Bar (2013) |
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Generation 1
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b. 1995
Gabrielle "Gabby" Douglas (born 31 December 1995, Newport News, Virginia) is an American artistic gymnast and the first African American woman to win the Olympic individual all-around title, which she won at London 2012 along with team gold. She won a second team gold at Rio 2016 and world team titles in 2011 and 2015, adding all-around silver at the 2015 World Championships. The daughter of Natalie Hawkins and Timothy Douglas, she started gymnastics at six at her sister Arielle's suggestion and moved to West Des Moines, Iowa, at 14 to train with coach Liang Chow. She wrote the memoirs Grace, Gold and Glory (2012) and Raising the Bar (2013), and starred with her family in Douglas Family Gold (2016). In 2023 she returned to training with Paris 2024 in mind, withdrawing in May 2024 with an injury.
Natalie Hawkins is the mother and longtime manager of Gabby Douglas, the 2012 Olympic all-around gymnastics champion, and the mother of Arielle, Joyelle and Johnathan. Raising four children in Virginia, she enrolled Gabby in gymnastics at six at the urging of her eldest daughter, Arielle, and later made the difficult decision to let 14-year-old Gabby move to West Des Moines, Iowa, to train with coach Liang Chow. She became a public figure in her own right after London 2012, speaking about the sacrifices behind her daughter's success, and she was the matriarch at the centre of the 2016 Oxygen reality series Douglas Family Gold, which followed the family during Gabby's run to the Rio Olympics.
Timothy Douglas is the father of Olympic all-around champion Gabby Douglas. A staff sergeant in the Air National Guard, he served with the 203rd RED HORSE civil engineering squadron and completed tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan; he was deployed in Afghanistan during the London 2012 Olympics, when his daughter became the first African American woman to win the Olympic all-around gymnastics title. Gabby's mother is Natalie Hawkins.
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b. 1989
Arielle Hawkins (born 1989, Virginia) is the eldest sibling of Olympic champion Gabby Douglas and the reason Gabby took up gymnastics. Arielle persuaded their mother, Natalie Hawkins, to enrol six-year-old Gabby in classes. Known in the family as "Arie", she appeared alongside her mother, sister Joyelle and brother Johnathan in the 2016 Oxygen series Douglas Family Gold.
Johnathan Douglas is the only brother of Olympic gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas and a son of Natalie Hawkins. He grew up in Virginia with his sisters Arielle, Joyelle and Gabby, and appeared with his family in Douglas Family Gold, the 2016 Oxygen series documenting the family's life around Gabby's training for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Joyelle Douglas is a sister of Olympic all-around champion Gabby Douglas and a daughter of Natalie Hawkins. Known in the family as "Joy", she grew up in Virginia with her sisters Arielle and Gabby and brother Johnathan, and she appeared with them in Douglas Family Gold, the 2016 Oxygen reality series that followed the family as Gabby prepared for the Rio Olympics.
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