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Simone Arianne Biles Owens [4] (born Simone Arianne Biles; March 14, 1997) [5] is an American artistic gymnast. With a total of 37 Olympic and World Championship medals, she is the most decorated gymnast in history, [6] and she is widely considered one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. [7] Her seven Olympic gymnastics medals are ninth-most ...
- Simone Arianne Biles Owens
- Spring, Texas, U.S.
- 4 ft 8 in (142 cm)
- March 14, 1997 (age 26), Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Learn about Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history and a four-time Olympic gold medalist. Discover her biography, achievements, and signature move, the Biles, on Olympics.com.
Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast in World Championships history and the most decorated American gymnast in Olympic history. See her complete list of medals, records and titles from 2013 to 2023.
When looking at world and Olympic medals combined, Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast in history — man or woman — with 37 medals. With just one medal of any color at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Biles will become the most decorated American gymnast in Olympic history, surpassing Shannon Miller who won seven medals between Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996.
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- Overview
- Early life
- Senior career
- 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games
- 2020 Tokyo Games and later activities
- Personal life
Simone Biles (born March 14, 1997, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.) is one of the greatest gymnasts in the history of the sport, known for her consistency and the complexity of her performances. Throughout her career, she has set a number of records. Notably, at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Biles became the first female U.S. gymnast to win four gold m...
Biles grew up in Spring, Texas, in the Houston metropolitan area, after she and her sister Adria were adopted by their grandparents, Ronald and Nellie Biles. Simone became interested in gymnastics at age six during a day-care field trip to Bannon’s Gymnastix, and she remained there for 11 years under the direction of her coach, Aimee Boorman. Biles won a gold in floor exercise and a bronze in vault at the Women’s Junior Olympic National Championships in 2010 before breaking into the elite level of competition in 2011. Less than two years later she dominated the sport. What set Biles apart was her consistency, her exuberant personality, and the high degree of difficulty she incorporated into her routines in all four events—vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.
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Olympic medals
2016 Rio Games
•Gold: team, all-around, vault, and floor exercise
•Bronze: balance beam
2020 Tokyo Games
•Silver: team
Biles, who was too young to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, was a favourite entering the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. She lived up to expectations, first leading the United States to gold in the team event and then winning the individual all-around. She also won the floor and vault events, becoming the fifth female gymnast to claim four gold medals at a single Olympics. Biles also captured a bronze in the balance beam to bring her medal total to five.
Biles subsequently took a break from gymnastics, and in 2018 she announced that she had been a victim of Larry Nassar, a former doctor for the U.S. national gymnastics team who was convicted of sexually abusing numerous athletes. That year Biles returned to competition. At the 2018 U.S. national championships, she became the first female gymnast in nearly 25 years to win all five events, including a record-setting fifth all-around title. Biles became the most-decorated female gymnast in world championships history when she won four golds (including another all-around title), one silver, and one bronze at the 2018 championships to bring her career total at that competition to 20 medals.
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Biles continued to make history in 2019. At that year’s world championship she became the first gymnast in more than six decades to win five gold medals, including one in the all-around event. She also debuted a new, incredibly difficult move on the balance beam—a double twisting, double backflip dismount—which she successfully executed. It was later named the Biles, becoming one of several moves that she introduced in the sport. In addition, she bypassed Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus to become the gymnast with the most world championship medals (25). Also in 2019 she won five medals at the U.S. national championships, four of which were gold.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no major events were held in 2020. The break, however, had little effect on Biles. At the 2021 U.S. Classic she became the first female gymnast to land the sport’s most difficult vault, the Yurchenko double pike, during a competition. Later that year she competed at the U.S. national championships, where she captured her seventh all-around title. She also won three other gold medals and one bronze.
There were high expectations for Biles as she entered the 2020 Tokyo Games, which were delayed until 2021. However, she withdrew from most events due to “the twisties,” a mental block in which gymnasts lose their spatial orientation during aerial moves. Her decision not to compete sparked discussions about the pressure placed on athletes and their mental health concerns. Biles did return for the final event, the balance beam, and she won a bronze medal.
Biles subsequently took a break from gymnastics, but she returned in 2023 and quickly reasserted herself as a dominating force in gymnastics. That year she competed at the U.S. national championships, where she won a record-setting eighth all-around title. She also captured gold medals in the balance beam and floor exercise and claimed a silver in the vault. These wins raised her total number of U.S. titles to an unprecedented 27. Later in 2023 Biles competed at the world championships, where she continued to add to her medal count, bringing her total to 30. She claimed gold medals in four events: team, all-around, floor exercise, and balance beam. In addition, she won a silver in the vault.
Biles’s memoir, Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance (written with Michelle Burford), was published in 2016. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022. The following year Biles married NFL safety Jonathan Owens.
- Luan Peszek
1997 - Simone Biles was born. It all begins! Simone Arianne Biles was born on 14 March 1997 in Columbus, Ohio.. 2003 - Biles begins gymnastics. Simone Biles first began gymnastics at the age of 6 after being spotted by coach Aimee Boorman and her mom during a pre-school field trip to the gym where Boorman was coaching.
Jul 27, 2021 · Simone Biles withdrew from the women’s team gymnastics final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Tuesday, citing mental heath concerns as she attempts to protect “her body and mind.”. After the ...
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