Simone Biles became the first-ever female gymnast to cleanly land a ‘triple double’ – when a gymnast completes two backflips while twisting three times in the air – at the US Gymnastics Championships in August 2019.
At the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Biles won individual gold medals in all-around, vault, and floor, bronze in balance beam, and gold as part of the United States team.
Biles proved she’s in a class of her own when she became the most decorated female gymnast at an elite level at the World Championships in Stuttgart in 2019, beating all previous records.
By the time 19-year-old Simone Biles attended the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she was already an international star athlete with ten World Championship gold medals.