How Many Olympic Medals Has Simone Biles Won?

After securing two medals on the Summer time Olympics in Tokyo, Simone Biles has made history as soon as once more, becoming a member of Shannon Miller as probably the most embellished American within the historical past of Olympic ladies’s gymnastics. So, simply what number of Olympic medals has Biles received? The reply is staggering.

Though Biles had solely competed at one Olympics earlier than, her medal rely coming into Tokyo was larger than most gymnasts get of their total profession. On the 2016 Video games in Rio de Janeiro, Biles received 5 Olympic medals: four gold and one bronze. These included three particular person gold medals for flooring train, vault, and the all-around competitors; one gold medal within the workforce occasion; and one particular person bronze medal for stability beam, the place she completed behind Dutch gymnast Sanne Wevers and “Last 5” teammate Laurie Hernandez. That is one medal for each occasion wherein she competed, excluding solely the uneven bars.

In profitable these 4 gold medals, Biles set an American report for probably the most gold medals received by a girl gymnast in a single Olympic Video games. She additionally joined teammate Gabby Douglas as one in all solely two American ladies to win each the person all-around and the workforce gold on the similar Olympics.

Biles was expected to compete for six more medals on the Tokyo Olympics, however after creating the “twisties” — a mental block that can cause a gymnast not to know where they are in the air, placing them at nice threat for harm — she was pressured to withdraw from the team final, in addition to the individual all-around and event finals for vault, uneven bars, and flooring train.

Even so, Biles earned a silver medal in the team event and was in a position to alter her dismount on beam to be able to safely compete within the occasion ultimate, the place she won bronze behind Chinese gymnasts Guan Chenchen and Tang Xijing. This brings her profession Olympic medal rely to seven, tying an American report set by Miller, who earned a complete of seven medals on the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Video games.

Biles’s total medal haul is much more spectacular. Outdoors of the Olympics, she has a whopping 25 medals on the World Championships, 19 of that are gold, making her probably the most embellished gymnast in World Championships historical past. She’s additionally the primary American to win a World medal in each occasion.

— Further reporting by Karen Snyder Duke