Simone Arianne Biles is an American artistic gymnast. Biles is the 2016 Olympic individual all-around, vault and floor gold medalist, and balance beam bronze medalist. She was also part of the gold-medal-winning team dubbed the "Final Five" at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Simone Biles keeps raising the bar in a sport that failed her
The case for Simone Biles’ athletic dominance was deemed airtight long ago with enough medals and titles, records and milestones, to fill volumes. She is, indisputably, the GOAT — insert all applicable emojis: the crowns, the praise hands, the wide-eyed awestruck face, and of course, the coded livestock itself.
Biles once again drew widespread acclaim at this weekend’s U.S. Gymnastics Championships, handily claiming the gold while performing two separate skills that no other woman had completed in competition: a double-double dismount from the balance beam and a triple-double — that’s three twists and two flips — in her floor routine. Her final score was five points more than the second-place finisher in a sport that regularly comes down to decimal points.
“Are you human?” Natalie Morales asked Biles last year on the Today Show after she’d won the 2018 U.S. Gymnastics Championships. “I am human, but I get that question all the time,” Biles responded. She went on to win the 2018 Worlds a few months later while suffering from a kidney stone.
Biles is used to working through pain and not only because gymnastics is such a brutal sport. In early 2018, she shared that she too had been abused by Larry Nassar. “It is impossibly difficult to relive these experiences,” she wrote. “I have promised myself that my story will be much greater than this and I promise all of you that I will never give up.”
Famous for
- American artistic gymnast
- Olympic Gold medalist
Early life of Simone Biles
Simone Biles was born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. She holds American nationality with African-American ethnicity and her birth sign is Pisces. She was born to her father Kelvin Clemons and mother Shanon Biles. She has 4 siblings including 2 sisters and 2 brothers named Adria Biles, Ashley Biles, Ron Biles Jr, and Adam Biles. She was raised by her grandfather after finding out his grandchildren had been placed into foster care as her mother was unable to care for her other children due to her alcohol and drug addiction and her father abandoned his family, struggled with addictions, and was never present in his daughter's life.
Regarding her education, Biles switched from public school to homeschooling in 2012 as she started training for gymnastics at her age of 8 with coach Aimee Boorman. Biles spent all her secondary education as a homeschooler and graduated in the summer of 2015. Later in 2018, she joined the University of the People to study Business Administration and became the brand ambassador of her college.
Body Measurements of Simone Biles
Gymnast Simone Biles has an amazing athletic body physique and she stands the height of 4ft 8in with a weight of 46 kg. Furthermore, her body measurements are 35-24-34 inches with the bra size of 34A and shoe size 5. Additionally, she attracts her fans with her charming personality with dark brown eyes and black hair.
Career of Simone Biles
- Biles began her career on July 1, 2011, at the 2011 American Classic in Houston.
- Biles placement in the American Classic secured her a spot to compete at the 2012 USA Gymnastics National Championships.
- In June, she made her second appearance at the U.S. National Championships in St. Louis, Missouri. She finished third all-around, first on vault, and sixth on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.
- After her amazing performance, Biles was named to the U.S. Junior National Team by a committee headed by Marta Karolyi: National Team Coordinator from 2001–2016.
- Biles senior international debut was in March at the 2013 American Cup, a FIG World Cup event where Biles led for two rotations but finished second behind her teammate, Ohashi.
- Biles then went on to compete at the 2013 City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy, where she took the all-around, vault, balance beam, and floor exercise titles in addition to contributing to the U.S.' team gold medal.
- In August 2013, Biles went on to compete at the USA Gymnastics National Championships, where she was crowned the national all-around champion.
- After the USA Gymnastics National Championships, she was named to the Senior National Team and was invited to the qualifying camp for the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Texas, where she was named to the World Championships team.
- In October, Biles competed at the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium where Biles competed cleanly during the women's individual all-around and won the competition with a score of 60.216.
- Biles became the seventh American woman and the first African-American to win the world all-around title.
- On September 17, Biles was selected to compete at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning, China.
- On March 7 2015, Biles competed at the 2015 AT&T American Cup at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas where she placed first with a score of 62.299.
- Biles was selected to represent the United States at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.
- With that victory, Biles became the first woman to win three consecutive all-around titles in World Gymnastics Championships history
- This brought Biles total World Championships medal count to 14, the most for any American, and total gold medal count to 10, the most for any woman in World Championships history.
- On December 17, 2015, she competes at the 2016 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, in April 2016 in Everett, Washington.
- In April 2016, Biles began her season at the Pacific Rim Championships, where she won the all-around title and had the highest score on vault (where she debuted a more difficult second vault).
- On July 10, Biles was named to the team for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, alongside Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian, and Aly Raisman.
- Biles appeared with gymnasts Dominique Dawes and Nadia Comaneci in a commercial for Tide called "The Evolution of Power" prior to the 2016 Summer Olympics.
- On August 9, Biles won her first Olympic gold medal in the gymnastics team event.
- She also won the gold medal individual all-around on August 11.
- With four Olympic gold medals, Biles set an American record for most gold medals in women's gymnastics at a single Games.
- Biles became the sixth female gymnast to have won an individual all-around title at both the World Championships and the Olympic Games.
- After the 2016 Rio Games, Simone wrote an autobiography with co-journalist Michelle Burford, Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance.
- The book hit number one on The New York Times bestsellers Young Adult list the week of January 8, 2017, and was turned into a Lifetime biopic.
- Biles was officially added back to the National Team on March 1, 2018, after the Athlete Selection Committee viewed videos demonstrating Biles' performance level.
- In the event finals of 2018 world championships in Doha, Qatar Biles won the gold medal on vault, her first-ever world vault title.
- This marked her thirteenth World gold medal, resulting in her winning the most Gymnastics World Championships titles of any gender.
- In January 2019 Biles competes at the Stuttgart World Cup in early March. It was her first World Cup appearance not on American soil where she finished in the first place,
- In August, Biles competed at the 2019 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships. She placed first in the all-around, with a two day combined score of 118.500.
Additionally,
- Biles was named Team USA Female Olympic Athlete of the Year on December 2015.
- In 2016, Simone Biles won the Glamour Award for the Record Breaker.
- In 2016, she was chosen as one of BBC's 100 Women.
- She was named one of ESPNW's Impact 25 and chosen as Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation.
- In July 2017, Biles won the ESPY Award for Best Female Athlete.
- In 2017, Simone won the Shorty Awards for the best in sports.
- In December, it was announced that Biles was named ESPN The Magazine's most dominant athlete of 2018.
Who is Simone Biles dating?
Simone Biles is currently dating her boyfriend Stacey Ervin Jr. who is a director and head coach at the World Champions Centre since August 2017.
Birthday of Simone Biles
Simone Biles celebrates her birthday on the 14th of March. Currently, she is 22 years old.
Net worth of Simone Biles
Gymnast Simona Biles is making a good amount of money from her career and her endorsements deals including Nike. As of 2019, her net worth is estimated to be around $2 Million and also she seems happy with her success.
