Simone Biles won her second medal of these Paris Olympics and her ninth across three Summer Games on Thursday when she captured the women’s all-around title. She is the world’s most decorated gymnast with 30 world championship medals to go with her Olympics haul.Biles, who won gold in the team competition Tuesday, has a chance to win more with the vault, balance beam and floor exercise finals to come. Before she adds to her historic tally, a look back at her Olympic achievements.Gold — women’s all-aroundThursday’s all-around concluded with Biles’s floor routine, during which she clinched the gold ahead of Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade. Biles’s triumph caps a comeback three years in the making after her performance at the Tokyo Olympics was disrupted by a disorienting mental block.Gold — women’s team finalThis U.S. team entered Paris with a chip on its shoulder following its disappointment in Tokyo — and subsequent challenges faced by its gymnasts since then. They called this Olympics their “redemption tour,” and on Tuesday, they seized their goal: a gold medal.For Biles, it was the eighth Olympic medal of her career, breaking her tie with Shannon Miller to become the most decorated U.S. gymnast in Olympic history. The 27-year-old won Tuesday alongside Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera.Silver — women’s team finalThe United States took silver in the women’s team final in 2021, finishing behind Russia after Biles pulled out early in the competition to focus on her mental health. Before that second-place finish, the U.S. women had won every team competition at the Olympics and world championships since 2011.Bronze — balance beamBiles qualified for every individual final in Tokyo, but after she withdrew from the team final, she said she no longer felt safe performing. Biles pulled out of the vault, uneven bars and floor finals, but returned for the balance beam final, where she earned a bronze.Gold — women’s team finalBiles won the first of five Olympic medals in Rio de Janeiro when she led the United States to the women’s team title. Then 19, Biles produced the best vault, beam and floor routines of the competition. That year’s American team also featured Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Aly Raisman and Madison Kocian.Gold — women’s all-aroundBiles was a three-time world champion in the all-around entering the Rio Olympics. Once there, she added Olympic gold to her collection after mounting a massive lead of 2.1 points over Raisman, the silver medalist.Gold — vaultBiles became the first American woman to win gold on the apparatus at the Olympics, posting an impressive score 15.966, nearly three-quarters of a point clear of Russia’s Maria Paseka, whose 15.253 earned silver.Gold — floorBiles scored 15.966 to win gold in the floor exercise, finishing ahead of Raisman, again the silver medalist (15.500), and the Britian’s Amy Tinkler, who scored 14.933. Biles’s success in Rio helped Team USA capture a medal in every women’s artistic gymnastics event for the first time since 1984.Biles had already won three gold medals at the Rio Games when she mounted the apparatus for the beam final. Though she lost her balance toward the end of her routine, grabbing the beam with her hands before continuing the sequence, she earned a bronze medal.
