With a total of fourteen medals, ten of them gold and three of the golds from the Rio 2016 Olympics, she has set the U.S. mark for most gold medals in women’s gymnastics at a single Games.
Meet Simone Biles!
Simone Arianne Biles (born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Biles is the 2016 Olympic individual all-around and vault champion. She is also a three-time world all-around champion (2013–15), three-time world floor champion (2013–15), two-time world balance beam champion (2014, 2015), four-time United States national all-around champion (2013–16), and a member of the gold medal-winning American teams at the 2014 and 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. With a combined total of eighteen Olympic and World Championship medals, Biles ranks as the most decorated gymnast in United States history. Wow!
Biles first tried gymnastics at six years old as part of a day-care field trip. The instructors suggested she continue with gymnastics. Biles soon enrolled in an optional training program at Bannon’s Gymnastix. She began training with coach Aimee Boorman at age 8.
Her birth mother, Shanon Biles, was unable to care for Simone or her other children – a girl seven years older than Simone, a boy (five years older), and Adria (two years younger) – due to her drug and alcohol addiction. Shanon's father and stepmother, Ronald and Nellie Biles, who had two nearly-adult sons, Ron Jr. and Adam, began temporarily caring for Shanon's children in 2000, in the north Houston suburb of Spring, Texas. In 2003 the couple officially adopted the two youngest children, Simone and Adria, and Ronald's sister adopted the two eldest. Simone's grandparents were responsible for taking her and her sister, Adria, out of foster care and giving them the stability they needed.
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