In August, Biles won a record eighth national all-around title with a strong performance at the US Gymnastics Championships in San Jose, California. Four-time Olympic artistic gymnastics champion Simone Biles has pushed the envelope of her sport, adding four elements to sports rule book that now bear her name. Biles now has four signature gymnastic moves named after her. A controversial rating of a new element in 2019 undervalued, not banned one of the Olympic champs eponymous moves. The victory at the US Women’s World Championships Selection Event continues her return to competitive gymnastics after a two-year hiatus following the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, when she pulled out of several events suffering from what is known as the “twisties” – a mental block causing a gymnast to lose track of their positions in midair. Team USAs gold medal was Simone Biles 21st World Gymnastics Championships medal in her career. She has gone onto earn plenty more accolades, accumulating 25 world championship medals – 19 golds, three silver and three bronze – in total.īiles is already the most decorated gymnast in US history, winning 32 medals across the Olympics and the world championships. In her world championships debut in Antwerp 10 years ago, Biles won all-around and floor exercise golds, as well as vault silver and beam bronze. See you soon Belgium,” Biles wrote on Instagram. She's already performed and successfully landed the move in competition. The victory books Biles’ spot on the US team for the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, which start in Antwerp, Belgium, on September 30.īiles is now the only US woman to qualify for six world championships, her first coming back in 2013 – that event was also held in Antwerp. Emilee Chinn/Getty Images However, if Biles lands a Yurchenko double pike at the Tokyo Olympics - a roundoff, a back handspring and two straight-legged backflips - she will likely have a fifth move named after her. Simone Biles topped the standings at the US Women’s World Championships Selection Event on Tuesday as her return to competitive gymnastics passed another landmark.īiles, 26, finished with an all-around total of 55.700, ahead of Shilese Jones’ 55.300 in second at the event in Katy, Texas.
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