Simone Biles won her sixth Olympic gold medal, and her second of the Paris Games, on Thursday to capture the women’s all-around final for a second time
Simone Biles won her sixth Olympic gold medal, and her second of the Paris Games, on Thursday, seeing off a stiff challenge from Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade to capture the women’s all-around final for a second time. Biles’s US teammate, Sunisa Lee, won bronze.
The 27-year-old returned to the summit of world gymnastics eight years after winning her first Olympic all-around title in Rio, becoming only the third woman in history to earn the sport’s most prestigious title more than once, after Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union and Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia .
Biles also became the oldest women’s all-around Olympic champion since the Soviet Union’s Maria Gorokhovskaya, who won the gold in 1952 when she was 30. She becomes the sixth straight American woman to win the title after Sunisa Lee , Biles herself , Gabby Douglas , Nastia Liukin and Carly Patterson .
The historic gold marked her 39th career medal between the Olympics and world championships, extending her record as the most decorated gymnast in history. Since winning her first national title in 2013, she has won every all-around competition in every meet she has entered.
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