Simone Biles

Simone Arianne Biles (/sI'moUn 'baI@lz/; born March 14, 1997)[4] is an American artistic gymnast. Shannon Miller holds the record for most Olympic medals won by an American gymnast, having won seven. Biles is also the equal ninth in total. With 25 World Championship medals won, Biles is the most decorated gymnast from the history of the Gymnastics World Championships. Many believe she to be the best gymnast of all-time. Joe Biden presented Biles with the Presidential Medal of Freedom 2022. Biles won gold medals at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics. Biles also took home bronze in balance beam, floor, all-around and vault. Biles was part of the United States team known as the "Final Five". But, Biles pulled out of most of the competition due to her struggles with "the twisties" which refers to an intermittent loss of balance awareness of the air. With the US team she won a medal on balance beam and also a silver. Her partial withdrawal, emphasis on mental health, safety and perseverance were recognized. She's also a five-time World all-around champion (2013-2015 (2018), 2018-2019) as well as a five-time World floor exercise champion (2013-2015, 2018-2019) and three-time World balance beam champion (2014-2015 2019, 2019) and two-time World vault champion (2018-2019), a seven-time United States national all-around champion (2013-2016 and 2018-2019 until 2021) and was a part of the gold-medal winning American teams competing in the 2014, 2015, 2018 and the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She also is a three time World silver medalist (2013 2014 on vault, and 2018-2019 on uneven bars), and a three-time World bronze medalist (1915 on vault as well as 2013 on balance beam and from 2018 to 2019 on vault). Biles is the World's most accomplished gymnast (25) and the World's most gold-medalized (19). She has now surpassed Vitaly Scherbo, who holds the record for 23 World medals. Biles won both 24th and 25th gold medals in the 2019 Stuttgart competition. [8] Biles is the female gymnast who has won the most World all-around titles (5). She is the sixth woman to earn an individual all-around championship at the Olympics and World Championships. Biles is the tenth gymnast, and the first American female gymnast to win an entire World medal on every event and is the first gymnast female since Daniela Silivas in 1988 to win a medal on every event in a single Olympic Games or World Championships, having accomplished this feat in the 2018 World Championships in Doha. Biles was the third child from four siblings. She was born in Columbus, Ohio on March 14th 1997. All four children were placed in foster care and out. In the year 2000, Biles' maternal grandfather, Ron Biles, and his second wife, Nellie Cayetano Biles,began taking care of Shanon's children in the north Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, after finding out that his grandchildren been placed in foster care. The couple took in Simone and Adria her younger sister, in 2003. Ron's sister Shanon's aunt Harriet adopted the two oldest kids. Biles, through her adoptive mother, holds Belizean citizenship and calls Belize as her second home. Biles is Catholic and so is her family.