Simone Biles further cemented her legacy as one of the greatest gymnasts of all time after winning the gold medal in the women’s vault final on Saturday, marking her third gold medal of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Biles is only the second woman in Olympic history to win the vault twice, having topped the podium at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio.
Biles entered the final with the highest qualifying score of 15.800, more than half a point ahead of her fiercest competitor, Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade.
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She landed the difficult Yurchenko double pike vault – a complex and difficult vault named after her in 2023 after she became the first female gymnast to land it at an international competition – on her first vault, earning her a score of 15.700.
She then immediately followed up with a less difficult vault for a score of 14.900, bringing her average score to 15.300 to give her the lead.
Biles is already off to a memorable start at the Paris Games.
SIMONE BILES WINS OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL IN WOMEN’S ALL-AROUND FINAL WITH STUNNING FLOOR ROUTINE
She won gold in the team all-around final earlier this week, eclipsing Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals of any other American gymnast, with eight. But on Thursday, Biles tried to win even more medals in the women’s individual all-around, capturing her sixth gold with a dazzling floor routine.
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