Gold Medals and Gold Dresses at the Salute to Women in Sports Gala

By Dodai Stewart | October 18, 2012 | 5:55pm

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Last night in New York, athletes rubbed elbows at the 33rd Annual Salute To Women In Sports Gala. If you miss some of the faces you got to know during the Olympics, fret not: Rowers, gymnasts, swimmers, track stars — the gang’s all here!

Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas rocked a gold dress with gold medals and a smile. Olympic gymnast Nastia Liukin wore a cute little skater dress. Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber showcased strong shoulders in royal blue.

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Legendary tennis star Billie Jean King scores in a crisp white jacket. Retired boxer Laila Ali is a knockout in skinny jeans. Paralympic basketball player Alana Nichols shines in a LBD.

Olympic swimmer Dana Vollmer has it all wrapped up in a bandage dress. A teeny dress for U.S. national climbing champion Sasha DiGiulian. Athlete/actress/model/paralympian Aimee Mullins is simply stunning in a fluid gown.

Olympic figure skater Sarah Hughes is pretty in pink. World waterskiing champion Camille Duvall-Hero keeps it simple in basic black. Olympic diver Abby Johnston matches silver shoes to her silver medal.

Wow. WNBA player Swintayla “Swin” Cash is red hot. Olympic runner Allyson Felix won a gold and two silvers this summer, and swathed herself appropriately. Digging the colors deaf motocross racer Ashley Fiolek has in her hair.

Professional pool player Jeanette Lee — aka The Black Widow — dazzles in floor-length sequins. Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin is into deep blue. Olympic long jumper Brittney Reese showcases her gold medal with swagger.

Paralymian Tatyana McFadden — who’s won a slew of medals in sprint events — looks fabulous in a shoulder-baring gown. Former Olympic soccer player Angela Hucles kicks it in a LBD. Is there a message hidden in the dress on national cycling champion Shelley Olds?

Former Olympic diver Maxine ‘Micki’ Joyce King is strap-happy. A LBD with a detailed neckline for former professional tennis player Katrina Adams. Paralympic ski racer Bonnie St. John also picks a little black dress, but accessorizes with a medal and a grin.

Simply elegant: Former national running champion Lillian Greene-Chamberlain, Ph.D. Former professional race car driver Janet Guthrie wears racy red. Paralympic swimmer Mallory Weggemann beams with sheer joy.

Wait a minute! Is paralympic swimmer Jessica Long wearing the same dress as Tatyana McFadden? Scandal! Figure skater Lianna Thomas keeps on sparkling, off the ice. Professional golfer Annika Sorenstam is waiting for tee time.

That’s former professional auto racer Lyn St. James in the traffic-stopping trench. And former Olympic track and field athlete Benita Fitzgerald Mosley draped in blue.

More bare shoulders! Former Olympic swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar pulls off a Grecian goddess gown. Former Olympic soccer player Julie Foudy smiles and sparkles.

Former professional tennis player Mary Carillo found something that suits her. Former WNBA player Nancy Lieberman looks like a colorful character. Figure skater Michelle Kwan has an epic ‘do we’re calling a Power Bun™.

Former professional golfer Carol Mann is snazzy in Le Smoking chic. If you swim, you’re a swimmer, if you do judo, you’re a judoka. And judoka Kayla Harrison is a gold medalist in a silvery gown. And yes, that’s actress Holly Hunter, just hanging out.

These ladies look shimmery, glam and comfortable: Professional sailboat racer Dawn Riley; Former Olympic swimmer Donna de Varona; Olympic Soccer player Heather O’ Reilly.

The right to bare arms: Trainer Jeanette Jenkins; Olympic soccer player Carli Lloyd; Paralympic volleyball player Katie Holloway.

Professional tennis player Christina McHale is all laced up. There’s a riot of color on that dress rocked by professional tennis player Sloane Stephens. Olympic rower Caryn Davies wears a subtle nod to nautical.

Olympic rower Susan Francia isn’t weighed down by her heavy medals. Soccer player Shannon Boxx steals the thighlight. Olympic rower Esther Lofgren, like so many of these women, looks great in gold.

Olympic coxswain Mary Whipple has winning style. Basketball player Mobi Akiode looks long and lean in green. And you’ll hear no gripes about professional rugby player Phaedra Knight‘s stripes.

Great houndstooth dress on professional lacrosse player Kristen Kjellman. Olympic water polo player Maggie Steffens beams in bright white; Olympic water polo player Brenda Villa wows in classic black.

Ruffles like a waterfall on former Olympic rower Carol Brown. Red alert: former professional tennis player Chris Evert looks smashing. There’s something kinda Game Of Thrones about the gown on Olympic soccer player Alex Morgan — in a good way!

Another golden girl: Olympic soccer player Heather Mitts. That’s Women’s Sports Foundation CEO Kathryn Olson sporting a cool LBD in the center, and Olympic softball player Jessica Mendoza killing it on the right.

Leg-baring ladies: Professional softball player Keilani Ricketts; former rhythmic gymnast Wendy Hilliard ; Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders.

These cuties are members of GoGirlGo!… and possibly future Olympians?

Images via Getty.