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| Full name | Simone Arianne Biles Owens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 14, 1997[1] Columbus, Ohio, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Spring, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Spring, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Jonathan Owens (m. 2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 4 ft 8 in (142 cm)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2012–2016 2018–2021 2023–present (USA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | World Champions Centre (2015–present)[3] Bannon's Gymnastix Inc. (2003–2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Laurent Landi Cecile Canqueteau-Landi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Aimee Boorman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Sasha Farber | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Biles (6.0) (vault): Yurchenko half on–straight front salto double twist off Biles II (6.4) (vault): Yurchenko double pike Biles (H) (balance beam): double-twisting double tucked salto dismount Biles (G) (floor exercise): double layout salto half out Biles II (J) (floor exercise): triple-twisting double tucked salto (aka "triple double") | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 of all time and tied with Shannon Miller for the most by a U.S. gymnast.[8]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Biles won individual gold medals in the all-around, vault, and floor; bronze on balance beam; and gold as part of the United States team, dubbed the "Final Five".[9] At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where she was favored to win at least four of the six available gold medals, she withdrew from most of the competition due to "the twisties", a temporary loss of air awareness while performing twisting elements. She won a silver medal with her team and a bronze medal on the balance beam.
Biles is a six-time World all-around champion (2013–2015, 2018–2019, 2023), six-time World floor exercise champion (2013–2015, 2018–2019, 2023), four-time World balance beam champion (2014–2015, 2019, 2023), two-time World vault champion (2018–2019), an eight-time United States national all-around champion (2013–2016, 2018–2019, 2021, 2023), and a member of the gold medal-winning American teams at the 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She is also a four-time World silver medalist (2013–2014 and 2023 on vault, 2018 on uneven bars) and a four-time World bronze medalist (2015 on vault, 2013 and 2018 on balance beam).
In 2019, Biles broke the record for most World Championship medals in gymnastics; she won her 24th and 25th medals at the event, surpassing Vitaly Scherbo's 23 World medals. Biles has since secured an additional five World medals, for a total of 30. She holds the record for World all-around titles (6), and is the sixth woman to win an individual all-around title at both the World Championships and the Olympics, the first since Lilia Podkopayeva in 1996 to hold both titles simultaneously. Biles is the tenth female gymnast and first American female gymnast to win a World medal on every event, and the first female gymnast since Daniela Silivaș in 1988 to win a medal on every event at a single Olympic Games or World Championships.
In 2022, Joe Biden awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[10] In 2023, she won her eighth U.S. Gymnastics title, breaking the 90-year-old U.S. Gymnastics title record previously held by Alfred Jochim.[11][12]
Biles won the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year three-times (2017, 2019, 2020),[13] and Comeback of the Year one time (2024).[13]
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- ^ "Simone Biles Gymnastics". TeamUSA.org. United States Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on August 14, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
- ^ "Simone Biles – World Champions". MeetScoresOnline.com. March 11, 2015. Archived from the original on August 22, 2019. Retrieved July 7, 2016.
- ^ "I do 🤍 officially owens 🤍". Twitter. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
- ^ "GymDivas.Us | Online Resource for Gymnasts in the United States". GymDivas. Archived from the original on October 13, 2014. Retrieved July 7, 2016.
- ^ "Simone Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in history". npr.org. Retrieved October 7, 2023.
- ^ * Apstein, Stephanie. "Simone Biles Is a Legend in Her Prime". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
- Coaston, Jane (October 10, 2019). "Simone Biles is the greatest female gymnast ever". Vox. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
- Wiedeman, Reeves (August 12, 2016). "Simone Biles Becomes the Greatest Gymnast of All-Time". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- Armor, Nancy (October 9, 2019). "Opinion: Simone Biles reaches GOAT status by doing 'alien gymnastics...inhuman gymnastics'". USA Today. Archived from the original on October 11, 2019. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
"greatest gymnast of her generation"
- Almasy, Steve (October 5, 2019). "Simone Biles nails two more amazing moves that will be named after her". CNN. Archived from the original on October 9, 2019. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
"greatest gymnast of our time and probably ever'"
- Zaccadri, Nick (October 10, 2019). "Mic Drop: Simone Biles wins fifth world all-around by record margin". NBC Sports. Archived from the original on October 10, 2019. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
"greatest gymnast in history'"
- Bremner, Jade (August 3, 2021). "How many Olympic medals does Simone Biles have?". The Independent.
- "Simone Biles part of group seeking $US1 billion-plus from FBI over failure to prevent Larry Nassar's alleged sexual assaults". ABC News. June 8, 2022.
- ^ "Simone Biles: All titles, records and medals – complete list". Olympics. Retrieved October 7, 2023.
- ^ Dillman, Lisa (August 27, 2016). "This young lady is light-years ahead of the competition". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on August 8, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
- ^ "Denzel Washington, Simone Biles to Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom". The Hollywood Reporter. July 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
- ^ Graves, Will (August 27, 2023). "Simone Biles wins a record 8th US Gymnastics title a full decade after her first". Associated Press. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
- ^ "Simone Biles wins record eighth US all-around title as comeback continues". BBC News. August 28, 2023. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
- ^ a b "PAST WINNERS". Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.