Hollie Johnston Dykes (born 12 September 1990) is a retired Australian gymnast who was born in

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, and began

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at the age of four and a half. She started training at the

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(

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) in 1998 and was awarded a full scholarship there in 2000. Hollie made her major international debut at the

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. 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

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. Later that year, Dykes competed in the World Championships in

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. She helped the Australian team to a respectable sixth-place finish, an improvement on the eight place in the

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. 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. Hollie announced her retirement from gymnastics on 11 January 2008, citing personal reasons. Her younger brother

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is a professional

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who plays for

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and the Scotland national team.Lyndon Dykes: Livingston striker still silent on Scotland or Australia
BBC Sport, 25 July 2020

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dykes, Hollie 1990 births Living people Australian Institute of Sport gymnasts Australian female artistic gymnasts Australian people of Scottish descent Sportspeople from the Gold Coast, Queensland Gymnasts at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women Sportswomen from Queensland Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games