She achieved this feat in the individual all-around woman final at the 2024 Paris Summer Games on Thursday, August 1, 2024. Simone Biles started strong with a massive 15.766 on vault but made a mistake on uneven bars that briefly put her in second place behind Andrade.
Biles, who hasn’t lost an all-around competition in more than a decade, showed the world what she is capable of. She gave herself a bit of work to do after a major mistake on uneven bars, which left her sitting third at the midway point behind both Andrade and Kaylia Nemour of Algeria.
However, she responded by hitting a big routine on the sport’s trickiest apparatus, the balance beam, and then put the competition to bed with a typically brilliant performance on the floor. This victory gave Biles her second Olympic gold of these Games after the U.S. women’s squad captured gold in the team final on Tuesday, and her ninth Olympic medal overall, the most ever won by an American gymnast.
Andrade took home the silver for the second straight Olympics while her fellow American Suni Lee won bronze after finishing with a clutch floor routine.
