Hollie Dykes

Hollie Dykes
Full name	Hollie Johnston Dykes
Country represented	Australia
Born	(1990-09-12) 12 September 1990 Gold Coast, Australia
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Retired	2008
Medal record Representing Australia Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne Team 2006 Melbourne Floor Exercise 2006 Melbourne Balance Beam 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. Her favorite apparatus is the balance beam.

Hollie made her major international début at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. 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 seventh-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.

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

Her younger brother Lyndon Dykes is a professional association football football player, currently with Queens Park Rangers.

External links

• Hollie Dykes at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Hollie Dykes at Gymnastics Australia
• Hollie Dykes at the Australian Olympic Committee
• Hollie Dykes at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)