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Simone Biles
File:Simone Biles at 2014 P&G Championship.jpgSimone Biles at the 2014 P&G Championships
Personal information
Full name	Simone Arianne Biles
Born	(1997-03-14) March 14, 1997 (age 27) Columbus, Ohio
Residence	Spring, Texas
Height	145 cm (4 ft 9 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	United States
Years on national team	2012 - present
College team	UCLA Bruins (2016-2020)
Level	Senior International Elite
Gym	World Champions Centre (current) Bannon's Gymnastix Inc. (2003-2014)
Head coach(es)	Aimee Boorman
Eponymous skills	floor exercise: double layout half out
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Championships 6 2 1 Representing  United States World Championships 2013 Antwerp All-Around 2013 Antwerp Floor Exercise 2014 Nanning Team 2014 Nanning All-Around 2014 Nanning Balance Beam 2014 Nanning Floor Exercise 2013 Antwerp Vault 2014 Nanning Vault 2013 Antwerp Balance Beam

Simone Arianne Biles (born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Biles is a two-time World All-Around Champion (2013 and 2014), two-time World Floor Champion (2013 and 2014), the 2014 World Beam Champion, and a member of the gold-medal winning US team at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She is also a two-time US National All-Around Champion (2013 and 2014).

Biles was the 2012 Junior National Champion on vault, and also won a bronze medal in the all-around competition.

Biles competed at the 2013 American Cup, an FIG World Cup event. She and Katelyn Ohashi were named as replacements for Elizabeth Price and Kyla Ross, both of whom withdrew from the competition roster due to injuries. The competition served as the debut of both gymnasts as senior international elites, where Ohashi won gold and Biles took silver.

Biles continued her first senior year with wins in Italy, Germany, and Hartford, Connecticut, at the national championships before winning two gold medals, one silver, one bronze, at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.

Personal life

Simone Arianne Biles was born on March 14, 1997 in Columbus, Ohio. Because her mother was unable to care for her and her siblings, Simone's grandparents, Ronald and Nellie Biles, adopted Simone and her sister Adria. She has two brothers named Ronald and Adam. She is a homeschooled 12th grader and will graduate in 2015.

Biles trains about 30 hours per week. In 2014, she and her primary coach, Aimee Boorman, left Bannon's Gymnastix in order to train at World Champions Centre (WCC), a gym founded and owned by Simone's parents. Simone trained briefly at Aim Athletics prior to WCC obtaining its own temporary training space while the final facility is under construction.

Biles verbally committed to UCLA as her college choice on August 4, 2014, announcing her decision on Twitter. She will defer enrollment until after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016.Simone is also the first African-American to be world all-around champion.

Junior career

2011

In early July, Biles began her elite career by competing at the American Classic in Huntsville, Texas. Biles placed third all-around, first on vault and balance beam, fourth on floor exercise and eighth on uneven bars.

In late July, Biles competed at the CoverGirl Classic in Chicago, Illinois. Biles placed fifth on balance beam and floor exercise.

In August, Biles competed at the Visa Championships in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Biles tied seventh on vault.

2012

In May, Biles competed at American Classic in Huntsville, Texas and placed first all-around. Biles also placed first on vault, tied for 2nd on floor exercise, placed 3rd on balance beam and 4th on uneven bars.

In late May, Biles competed at the 2012 Secret US Classic in Chicago, Illinois. Biles finished first all-around with a score of 58.150. Biles also finished first on vault, second on floor exercise and sixth on balance beam.

In June, Biles competed at the Visa Championships in St. Louis, Missouri. Biles finished third all-around. Biles also finished first on vault and sixth on uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise. Following the 2012 Visa Championships Biles was named to the USA Junior National Team.

Senior career

2013

In March, Biles began her senior career. Biles competed at the American Cup in Worcester, Massachusetts, and finished second all-around earning the silver medal behind American teammate, Katelyn Ohashi.

In April, Biles competed at the 2013 City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy, she and her teammates helped USA win the team title. Biles also took the all-around, vault, balance beam, and floor exercise titles.

In July, Biles competed at the Secret U.S. Classic (the qualifying meet for the national championships). Biles won no medals and dropped out of the vault competition after tweaking her ankle on the floor exercise. Biles did however qualify to the 2013 P&G Championships.

In August, Biles competed at the 2013 P&G Championships. Biles was crowned the national champion ahead of 2012 Olympic Gold Medalist Kyla Ross. Biles also won silver on floor exercise, silver on the vault behind McKayla Maroney, silver on the beam behind Kyla Ross, and silver on the uneven bars. Following the P&G Championships Biles was named to the USA Senior National Team and was invited to the qualifying camp for the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Texas. Biles was named to the USA World Championships Team.

2013 World Championships

In October, Biles competed at the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. She dominated the qualifying round, where she qualified in the top position to the all-around with a score of 60.133. She also qualified second to the vault final with a 15.550, sixth to the uneven bars final with a 14.800, fifth to the balance beam final with a 14.400 and first to the floor final with a 15.033. Biles became the first American gymnast to qualify to the all-around and all four event finals since Shannon Miller in 1991 and the first female gymnast to do so since Aliya Mustafina in 2010. In the all-around, Biles started on vault where she performed an Amanar vault (15.850). On bars, she had a dynamic and powerful routine with a stuck full-in dismount (14.700). On beam, she had a couple of wobbles, but still performed well (14.433). She was in second after the third rotation, but scored a 15.233 on floor for her routine, which was highlighted with a tucked double double, a double layout half-out, a two and a half twist to a front layout and a tucked full-in dismount. Biles won the Women's All-Around competition with a score of 60.216, almost a point ahead of Kyla Ross, who took silver, and almost a point and a half better than the bronze medalist, the 2010 World All-Around Champion Aliya Mustafina. Biles became the seventh American female gymnast to win the World All-Around title, after Kim Zmeskal, Miller, Chellsie Memmel, Shawn Johnson, Bridget Sloan, and Jordyn Wieber. She also became the first African American to win the World All-Around title. She went on to win silver in the vault final with a final average of 15.595 (she scored 15.933 for her Amanar and 15.258 for her laid-out Podkopayeva) behind defending World Champion and Olympic silver medalist McKayla Maroney, a bronze medal on balance beam with a 14.333 behind Mustafina and Ross, and gold on the floor exercise, with a score of 15.000 ahead of Italy's Vanessa Ferrari and Romania's Larisa Iordache. She also qualified for the uneven bars final, where she finished fourth with a score of 14.716. Biles left Antwerp with two gold medals, a silver and a bronze. She became the first female American gymnast to win four medals at a single World Championships since Rebecca Bross in 2010 and the first to win a medal on three individual events since Nastia Liukin in 2005.

2014

In early January, it was announced that Biles would be competing at the 2014 AT&T American Cup. The competition will be held on March 1 in Greensboro, NC. However, on February 23, it was announced that she had withdrawn from the competition due to a shoulder injury.

In February, news surfaced that Biles would move to another gym with her coach, Aimee Boorman. Said gym was to be a brand new venture, World Champions Centre, owned by Biles' parents.

Biles traveled with Team USA to the Pacific Rim Championships in Richmond, Canada in April and completed one day of Podium Training but withdrew due to aggravating her shoulder injury. Her replacement was Peyton Ernst.

In August, Biles competed at the 2014 Secret US Classic in Chicago, Illinois, which was her first competition of the 2014 season. She won the all-around with a score of 61.700. She also took home 3 golds on vault, beam (tied with Kyla Ross) and floor. She finished 4th on the uneven bars.

On August 23, Biles won the all-around at the 2014 P&G Championships for the second consecutive year with a 2-day total of 122.550, 4.250 points ahead of Kyla Ross. She ended up falling from the balance beam in the final rotation, but had a large enough lead to win her second national all-around title. She also took home 2 golds on vault (31.025) and floor (31.150). She tied for the silver on balance beam with Alyssa Baumann (30.300) behind Kyla Ross despite falling from the beam. She finished 4th on the uneven bars (29.300). She was also named a member of the 2014-2015 Senior National team for the second year in a row.

On September 17, Biles was named to compete at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning, China.

2014 World Championships

In October, Biles competed at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning, China. In qualifying, she had a mistake on one of her pirouettes on uneven bars, but still put together a solid performance. She helped the American women qualify in first place to the team final ahead of China and Russia. Biles qualified in first to the all-around with a score of 59.599, as well as first to the vault final with a 15.450 (she scored a 15.800 and a 15.100 respectively), first to the balance beam final with a 15.133, and first to the floor final with a 15.366. Biles was the only female gymnast to score above a 15.000 on beam and floor and one of only two gymnast to qualify to three event finals (the other being Aliya Mustafina of Russia). In the team final, Biles competed on vault, beam and floor. She contributed a 15.866 on vault and a 14.966 on beam. She helped the American women win their second consecutive World team title, scoring 179.280 and beating China by a landslide of almost seven points,. As the final competitor on floor, Biles only needed a 8.682 to secure the gold. She hit a clean routine and received a 15.375. In the all-around, Biles started on vault by performing an Amanar vault (15.866). On bars, she performed a clean routine that scored over a point higher than in qualification (14.533). On beam, she had a couple of errors, but still posted a good score (14.766). On her final event, floor, Biles had a stylish and bouncy routine that highlighted a tucked double double, a double layout half-out (the Biles), a double layout and a tucked full-in dismount. Her floor routine scored a 15.066. She won her second straight all-around World title with a score of 60.231, ahead of Romania's Larisa Iordache and teammate Kyla Ross. Biles is the first American female gymnast to retain her World all-around title since Shannon Miller (1993 and 1994) and only the second American gymnast to ever do so. This also gave Biles her fourth World gold medal and the American's their third straight World all-around victory. In the vault final, Biles won the silver medal by a small margin with an average of 15.554 (15.900 and 15.208 respectively) behind North Korea's Hong Un-Jong. Her American teammate Mykayla Skinner won the bronze medal. Biles then went on to win two more gold medals in the balance beam and floor exercise finals, scoring 15.100 and 15.333, respectively. Her total of 6 gold medals is the most by an American gymnast at a World Championships, surpassing Shannon Miller's total of 5.

Senior routines

The trademarks of Simone Biles' gymnastics is her power and strength on vault, beam and floor, and her energetic and stylish performances. Her weakest event is uneven bars, although she has demonstrated great consistency on the event. Biles often performs the following skills on each apparatus:

2013 (2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (Antwerp)):

Vault

Vault 1: Two and a half Twisting Yurchenko "Amanar" (round-off, backhandspring entry; two and a half twisting layout). Total Difficulty Start Value: 6.3 (downgraded from 6.5 in the 2013 - 2016 Code of Points).

Vault 2: Laid-out Podkopayeva vault (round-off, half-on entry, front layout half-out) Total Difficulty Start Value: 5.6

Uneven bars

Glide kip cast to handstand (KCHS) with grip change (B) + Weiler 1/2 (D) + Toe-on release with flight back to high bar (Maloney) (D); KCHS (B) + Toe-on sole circle to handstand 1/1 (Hoefnagel) (D) + Straddled Tkatchev (D); KCHS (B) + Piked Tkatchev (E) + Pak Salto (D); KCHS 1/2 (B) + Toe-on shoot up to high bar (B); KCHS + Toe-on sole circle to handstand (C) + Tucked Full-In dismount (D). Total Difficulty Start Value: 6.1.

Balance beam

Squat to rear support mount (A); 5/2 turn in tuck stand (E); Sissone (A) + Pike Jump (A); Front Aerial Walkover (D) + Split Jump (A); Flip Flop step-out (B) + Back Layout step-out (C); Switch Split Leap (C) + Switch Split Leap 1/2 (D) + Back Tuck (C); Front Tuck (D); Flip Flop step-out (B) + Flip Flop two-feet (B) + Tucked Full-In dismount (G). Total Difficulty Start Value: 6.2.

Floor exercise

Round-off + Flip Flop two-feet + Double Tuck 2/1 (Silivas) (H); Switch Split Leap (B) + Split Leap 3/2 (D); Round-off + Flip Flop two-feet + Double Layout 1/2 Out (Biles) (G); Double Turn in Tuck Stand (C); Switch Split Leap 1/1 (D); Johnson with 1/2 turn (C); Front Aerial (A); Round-off + Flip Flop two-feet + Back Layout 5/2 (D) + Front Layout (B); Round-off + Flip Flop two-feet + Full Twisting Double Tuck Back Dismount (E) Total Difficulty Start Value: 6.5.

2014:

Vault

Vault 1: Two and a half Twisting Yurchenko "Amanar" (roundoff, backhandspring entry, two and a half twisting layout). Total Difficulty Start Value: 6.3

Vault 2: Laid-out Podkopayeva vault (roundoff, half-on entry, front layout half-out). Total Difficulty Start Value: 5.6

Uneven bars

Glide kip cast to handstand (KCHS) with grip change (B) + Weiler 1/2 (D) + Toe-on release with flight back to high bar (Maloney) (D); KCHS (B) + Toe-on sole circle to handstand 1/1 (Hoefnagel) (D) + Straddled Tkatchev (D) + Pak Salto (D); KCHS 1/2 (B) + Toe-on shoot up to high bar (B); KCHS + Toe-on sole circle to handstand (C) + Tucked Full-In dismount (D). Total Difficulty Start Value: 5.7.

Balance Beam

Squat to rear support mount (A); 5/2 turn in tuck stand (E); Sissone (A) + Pike Jump (A); Front Aerial Walkover (D) + Split Jump (A); Flip Flop step-out (B) + Back Layout step-out (C) + Back Layout step+out (C); Switch Split Leap (C) + Switch Split Leap 1/2 (D) + Back Tuck (C); Front Tuck (D); Wolf Hop (A) + Aerial Cartwheel (D); Flip Flop step-out (B) + Flip Flop two-feet (B) + Tucked Full-In dismount (G). Total Difficulty Start Value: 6.6.

Floor exercise

Roundoff + Flip Flop two-feet + Double Tuck 2/1 (Silivas) (H); Roundoff + Flip Flop two-feet + Double Layout 1/2 out (Biles) (G); Double Turn in Tuckstand (C); Johnson with 1/2 turn (C); Switch Split Leap (B) + Split Leap 3/2 (D); Roundoff + Flip Flop two-feet + Double Layout (F); Switch Split Leap 1/1 (D); Front Aerial (A); Roundoff + Flip Flop two-feet + Full Twisting Double Tuck Back Dismount (E). Total Difficulty Start Value: 6.5

See also

• List of top female medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

References

1. "Houston gymnast Simone Biles wins world championship". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
2. "Simone Biles". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
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5. Lawrence, Blythe (March 1, 2013). "Promising pair stands in for Fierce Five". ESPN. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
6. Associated Press (26 February 2013). "Kyla Ross out of American Cup". Retrieved 27 February 2013.
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8. ^ Associated Press (March 2, 2013). "Katelyn Ohashi wins 1st senior event". ESPN. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
9. ^ "Simone Biles Biography". Gym Style. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
10. Simone Biles' announces UCLA as the college she will attend.
11. http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/2014/08/04/simone-biles-chooses-ucla-gymnastics-olympics/
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15. http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2014/02/world-champion-gymnast-simone-biles-to-no-longer-train-at-spring-gym/#16571101=0
16. http://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=13866&prog=h
17. https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/w_14classic_sr.pdf
18. "USA Gymnastics Announces U.S. Women's Team For 2014 World Championships". USA Gymnastics. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
19. ^ "Simone Biles Routines". Gym Style. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
20. "FIG Executive Committee - Official News" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. Retrieved 27 February 2013.

External links

• Official Site
• Simone Biles at the International Gymnastics Federation
• USA Gymnastics Profile
• Biles (Floor Exercise)

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• 1997 births
• Living people
• African-American sportswomen
• American female artistic gymnasts
• Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• People from Columbus, Ohio
• World champion gymnasts
• Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics