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SIMONE BILES
Simone Biles is a five-time Olympic medalist (4 gold, 1 bronze). She is the holder of twenty-five world
championship medals, the most among men and women. She is the first woman gymnast to win three
consecutive World all-around titles. She has won the most World Championship gold medals won by a
female gymnast in history (10). She is the most decorated World Championship American gymnast with
14 total medals (10 gold, two silver, two bronze). Simone is the first woman to capture four gold medals
at a single World Championships (2014 & 2015) since the Soviet Union’s Ludmilla Tourischeva in 1974. She
is the first American woman in 23 years to win three all-around national titles. Simone is the first female
African American all-around world champion. She was honored as the 2014 Women’s Sports Foundation’s
“Sportswoman of the Year,” and in 2016 was named Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year and the BBC
Overseas Sports Personality of the Year. She is considered by many to be the greatest gymnast of all time.
Source: simonebiles.com/bio
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