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SIMONE BILES

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  • BORN

    BORN
    Born in Ohio in 1997, Simone Biles was adopted by her grandparents along with her three siblings due to the addiction problems that her parents suffered. She started practicing gymnastics when he was 8 years old. Her first competition, the “ American Classic”, took place in Texas in 2011. Biles placed third

  • GYMNAST

    GYMNAST
    Simone was a natural gymnast who started teaching herself to flip backwards off mailboxes as a little kid, according to NBC. She got her start in the sport of gymnastics at 6 years old, after a daycare field trip to a gym. Once she saw older girls doing their routines, she was hooked and started training right away.

  • FIRST MEET

    FIRST MEET
    Her first meet of 2012 was again in the”American Classic” competition, but this time, she finished first in the individual overall and vault, second on floor, third on balance beam, and fourth on uneven bars. Later, she competed in the 2012 Secret U.S. Classic Tournament in Chicago, where she finished first in the all-around individual and on vault, second on floor, and sixth on balance beam

  • WORLD ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

    WORLD ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
    The 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Antwerp, Belgium. Individually, Simone Biles ranked first in the individual overall competition, second in horse vault, sixth on uneven bars, fifth on balance beam and first on floor.

  • THE SHOULDER INJURY

    Biles missed the start of the season due to a shoulder injury, leaving her out of the 2014 American Cup. Her re-entry into competition was at the 2014 "Secret. U.S. Classic" tournament in Chicago, where won the individual all-around competition by a wide margin over second place, and won the vault, balance beam and floor finals.

  • THE PRIZE AND THE WASP

    While Simone is an incredible athlete, she's also a human being — and that means she gets scared of bees just like you do. After receiving the gold medal at the 2014 World Championships, another medalist pointed out to Simone that a bee was in her bouquet. Being an adorable then-16-year-old, she giggled and jumped off the podium to escape the little pesk.

  • THE 2015 AMERICAN CUP

    He began the season on march 7, competing in the 2015 American Cup, held in Arlington, Texas, managing to win the overall individual competition with 62,2999 points and with an advantage greater than four points over the second place.

  • HEIGHT DOES NOT MATTER

    Standing at just 4-feet-9-inches, Simone was the shortest out of all 555 athletes representing the United States in Rio in 2016. Here, she poses next to volleyball player David Lee. At 6-feet-8-inches, Lee is a whopping two feet taller than Simone.

  • SIMONE'S FALLING STEPS

    While Simone is one of greatest competitors in all events, her signature is the floor routine.Her tumbling passes are so difficult that her third tumbling pass is at the difficulty of most gymnasts' first pass - the slot where most gymnasts put
    their hardest move. "In short," Vox explains, "Biles can perform everyone else's hardest tumbling pass after she's completed two even more difficult ones." Wow. Just take a look at this routine from the 2016 P&G Championships, where Simone took home gold.

  • OLYMPIC TRIALS

    In July she participated in the Olympic Trials (selection tests for the Olympic team) where she managed to be one of the athletes chosen to represent the United States at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.

  • REPRESENTATION OF THE UNITED STATES

    Like every four years, the United States Olympic Committee held the internal competition called “Olympic Trials,” whose objective is to select the athletes from each discipline who will represent the country in the Olympic Games. On July 8 and 1029 of that year, the event was held to form the artistic gymnastics team that would compete in Rio 2016. On July 10, the team's name was made official. It was made up of Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Gabrielle Douglas, Laurie Hernández and Madison Kocian.

  • THE GREAT SIMONE BILES

    At age 24, she's already made history. Not only is Simone the first female gymnast to win three world all-around titles in a row, she's also the first Black gymnast to become the world all-around champion.

  • THE AMERICAN STAR

    American star Simone Biles will head home from the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships with five new medals, four of them gold, after winning the balance beam and floor exercise finals Sunday.

  • WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP + MEDALS

    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.

  • ALL SIMONE MEDALS

    Since the 2013 P&G Championships, Simone has dominated. In total, she's won 25 medals at the World Championships with 19 of them being gold. Notably, she's the first American to win a medal in every event at this competition. At her first Summer Olympic Games in 2016 in Rio, Simone earned five medals: four gold and one bronze.