![]() ![]() Miller and Dawes were both members of the " Magnificent Seven", the 1996 team that became the first American squad to win the team all-around gold medal at the Olympics. Dominique Dawes competed at the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Olympics, winning four medals. Miller won five medals in 1992 and added two more in 1996. Shannon Miller, who competed at the 19 Olympics, won seven total Olympic medals, which was the most of any American female gymnast before the 2021 Olympics in which Simone Biles tied for the number of Olympic medals won. She won five total medals that year in the only Olympic Games she participated in. In 1984, Mary Lou Retton became the first American female gymnast to win the individual all-around gold medal at the Olympics. Seven American female gymnasts have won at least four medals at the Olympic Games: Shannon Miller (seven), Simone Biles (seven), Aly Raisman (six), Nastia Liukin (five), Mary Lou Retton (five), Dominique Dawes (four), and Shawn Johnson (four). has medaled in the team all-around in every Summer Olympics since 1992, winning golds in 1996, 2012, and 2016. American women have won 48 medals at the Olympics – 9 in team all-around, 8 in individual all-around, 4 in vault, 8 in uneven bars, 10 in balance beam, and 9 in floor exercise. A total of 83 female gymnasts have represented the United States. ![]() American female gymnasts have participated in every Olympic Games since 1936, except for 1980. Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896, but women's events first appeared in 1928.
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