Hollie Dykes

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Hollie Dykes
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AIS gymnast Hollie Dykes on the balance beam (right) with AIS coach Ju Ping Tian in 2003
Personal information
Full nameHollie Johnston Dykes
Country representedFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born (1990-09-12) 12 September 1990 (age 33)
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Retired2008
Medal record
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Melbourne Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Melbourne Floor Exercise
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2006 Melbourne Balance Beam
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2006 Melbourne All-Around

Hollie Johnston Dykes (born 12 September 1990) is a retired Australian gymnast who was born in Gold Coast, Queensland, and began gymnastics at the age of four and a half. She started training at the Australian Institute of Sport (Canberra) in 1998 and was awarded a full scholarship there in 2000.

Dykes made her major international debut at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. She won gold in the women's floor exercise and as part of the women's team final. She earned a silver in the women's beam and a bronze in the women's all-around, beating Imogen Cairns of England.

Later that year, Dykes competed in the World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark. She helped the Australian team to a respectable sixth-place finish, an improvement on the eight place in the 2004 Olympics. However, a fall from beam in qualification rounds left her unable to progress to the apparatus final, where she was a medal prospect. In the all-around, Dykes was one of only half a dozen gymnasts not to fall, but she still finished out of the medals, in seventh place.

Dykes announced her retirement from gymnastics on 11 January 2008, citing personal reasons. [1]

Her younger brother Lyndon Dykes is a professional footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers and the Scotland national team. [2]

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References

  1. Murdoch, Alex (8 January 2008). "Gymnast Hollie Sykes quits before Games". The Courier-Mail.
  2. Lyndon Dykes: Livingston striker still silent on Scotland or Australia, BBC Sport, 25 July 2020