Simone Biles Age: How Old is Simone Biles?
Simone Arianne Biles Owens is an American artistic gymnast. She is the most decorated gymnast in history, and many consider her to be the finest gymnast of all time. Her seven Olympic gymnastics medals rank seventh all-time and equal her with Shannon Miller for the most by a US gymnast.
Her seven Olympic gymnastics medals rank seventh all-time and equal her with Shannon Miller for the most by a US gymnast. She holds the most World Championship medals in gymnastics (30, largely gold).
Biles has secured the title of World all-around champion six times (2013–2015, 2018–2019, 2023), dominated the World floor exercise competition six times (2013–2015, 2018–2019, 2023), claimed the World balance beam championship four times (2014–2015, 2019, 2023), and achieved the status of World vault champion twice (2018–2019).
She has also clinched the United States national all-around championship eight times (2013–2016, 2018–2019, 2021, 2023) and contributed to the success of the American teams, earning gold medals at the 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Additionally, Biles boasts four World silver medals (2013-2014 and 2023 on vault, 2018 on uneven bars) and three World bronze medals (2015 on vault, 2013 and 2018 on balance beam).
Biles now has the most world medals (30) and world gold medals (23), surpassing Vitaly Scherbo’s record of 23 world medals by earning her 24th and 25th, both gold, during the 2019 tournament in Stuttgart. She has the most world all-around titles (6) of any female gymnast. She is the sixth woman to win an individual all-around championship at both the World Championships and the Olympics and the first gymnast to do so since Lilia Podkopayeva in 1996.
She is the tenth female gymnast and the first American female gymnast to win a world medal on every event, as well as the first female gymnast since Daniela Silivaş in 1988 to win a medal on every event at a single Olympic Games or World Championships, which she accomplished at the 2018 World Championships in Doha. Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on her in 2022. In 2023, she won her eighth U.S. gymnastics title, breaking Alfred Jochim’s 90-year-old U.S. gymnastics title record.
Simone Biles Age: How Old is Simone Biles?
Simone Arianne Biles Owens was born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. She is 26 years old as of 2023.
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