Simone Biles

Simone Biles, a gymnast American, has won her 20th gold medal at the world championships when Team USA won their seventh world title in a row at Antwerp Belgium's championship on the 4th of October. Biles is the currently most successful female gymnast in history, winning 33 medals in international competitions like the Olympics. Biles performed an extremely difficult vault just a few days earlier, which no woman had ever attempted on a stage of international competition. Biles II is now the brand name of the Yurchenko twin pike vault it was originally called Yurchenko. The world record-setting gymnast participating in her debut international meet since 2021, will be competing in an one-on-one all-around final in Oct. 6. Simone was born in 1997 in Columbus Ohio Simone was taken away from the home of her mother in law who was struggling with addiction. She was placed into foster care alongside her three siblings. Ron, a retired Air Force vet and Nellie retired nurse helped care for Simone as she turned 6 years old. Also, the couple adopted her youngest sister Adria. Their grandmother took care of Simone's siblings who were older.