Simone Biles won the gold medal in the vault with her signature Yurchenko double pike and then a vault called a Cheng. The Yurchenko double pike is the hardest vault in women’s gymnastics: She does a roundoff onto the springboard, a back handspring onto the vaulting table, then catapults herself into a double back flip with her legs straight in front of her.
Biles scored 15.7, a full six-tenths of a point higher than the second-best vault in the final. She scored 14.9 on her Cheng vault, making her average easily enough for the seventh Olympic gold medal of her career.
