Simone biles achievements
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Laurie Hernandez
(2000-)
Who Is Laurie Hernandez?
Gymnast Laurie Hernandez started her gymnastics career as a young child and steadily built a reputation for her skills and charisma on the floor and apparatus. She landed a spot on the 2016 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics team and is one of only a handful of Latinas to represent the U.S. since 1936. At the Summer Games in Rio, she won team gold as the youngest member of the U.S. women's gymnastics team, nicknamed "The Final Five," and a silver medal in the individual balance beam event.
Early Life and Gymnastics Beginnings
Lauren “Laurie” Hernandez was born on June 9, 2000, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the youngest of three children born to parents Anthony and Wanda Hernandez. Her mother is a social worker who has also served in the Army Reserves and her father is a court officer in New Jersey. She and her siblings, brother Marcus and sister Jelysa, were all athletic from a young age.
When Hernandez was six, her parents signed her up for gymnastics classes in her hometown of Old Bridge. It was there she came to
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Simone Biles
Quick Facts
Specialty: Floor exercise, vault and balance beam
Eponymous skills:
Biles (6.0) (vault): Yurchenko half on-straight front salto double twist off
Biles II (6.4) (vault): Yurchenko double pike
Biles (H) (balance beam): double-twisting double backflip dismount
Biles (G) (floor exercise): double layout salto half out
Biles II (J) (floor exercise): triple-twisting double tucked salto (“triple-double”)
Biographical Information
Simone Biles is a U.S. gymnast and one of the most celebrated athletes of all time. Her passion for gymnastics began at the age of six during a daycare field trip. She quickly displayed a natural affinity and love for the sport. She continued her Gymnastics journey at Bannon's Gymnastics.
Biles attended elementary school in Harris County, Texas up until she began homeschooling in 2012 to allow for more gymnastics training. She progressed rapidly through the ranks of the gymnastics world, transitioning to the junior elite division in 2011-2012.
Biles made her international debut in
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Simone Biles
American artistic gymnast (born 1997)
Simone Arianne Biles Owens[4] (néeBiles; born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Her 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her the most decorated gymnast in history.[5] She is widely regarded as one of the greatest gymnasts of all time and one of the greatest Olympians of all time.[6] With 11 Olympic medals, she is tied with Věra Čáslavská as the second-most decorated female Olympic gymnast, and has the most Olympic medals earned by a U.S. gymnast.[7]
At the Olympic Games, Biles is a two-time gold medalist in the individual all-around (2016, 2024). She is also a two-time champion on vault (2016, 2024), the 2016 champion and 2024 silver medalist on floor exercise, and a two-time bronze medalist on balance beam (2016, 2020). Biles led the gold medal-winning United States teams in 2016, dubbed the "Final Five," and in 2024, dubbed the "Golden Girls".[8] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she was favored to win at least four of the six available
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