Simone Biles

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Simone Biles
Simone Biles Rio 2016e.jpg

Personal information
Surname: Simone Arianne Biles
Nationality: United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Gymnastics
Society: World Champions Center
Trainer: Laurent Landi
Birthday: 14th March 1997 (age 23)
Place of birth: Columbus , Ohio
Size: 142 cm
Weight: 47 kg
Medals
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro team
gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro All-around
gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro ground
gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro Leap
bronze 2016 Rio de Janeiro Balance beam
Logo of FIG World championships
gold 2013 Antwerp All-around
gold 2013 Antwerp ground
silver 2013 Antwerp Leap
bronze 2013 Antwerp Balance beam
gold 2014 Nanning All-around
gold 2014 Nanning team
gold 2014 Nanning Balance beam
gold 2014 Nanning ground
silver 2014 Nanning Leap
gold 2015 Glasgow team
gold 2015 Glasgow All-around
gold 2015 Glasgow Balance beam
gold 2015 Glasgow ground
bronze 2015 Glasgow Leap
gold 2018 Doha team
gold 2018 Doha All-around
gold 2018 Doha Leap
gold 2018 Doha ground
silver 2018 Doha Uneven bars
bronze 2018 Doha Balance beam
gold 2019 Stuttgart team
gold 2019 Stuttgart All-around
gold 2019 Stuttgart Leap
gold 2019 Stuttgart Balance beam
gold 2019 Stuttgart ground

Simone Arianne Biles (born March 14, 1997 in Columbus , Ohio ) is an American gymnast . With 25 medals, she is the most successful World Cup participant of all time.

Career

Origin and school education

Biles was born in Columbus, Ohio in March 1997. Her birth mother was addicted to drugs and alcohol and could therefore not take care of Simone and her three siblings Adria, Ashley and Tevin. Simone and her sister Adria, two years younger than her, were adopted by grandparents Ron and Nellie Biles and grew up in Spring , Texas . Simone Biles completed her entire school education in home schooling , which she completed in summer 2015. In August 2014, she announced on the short message service Twitter that she had decided to study at the University of California, Los Angeles . She planned to start her studies after the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In 2015, however, she decided to become a professional, which excluded her from the college championship. In 2018, she enrolled at the University of the People for a degree in business administration . She also became a brand ambassador for the university.

Since her adoptive mother is from Belize , Biles is also a citizen of Belize. Biles is Catholic .

Artistic gymnastics career

Biles tried gymnastics at the age of six, and her talent was recognized and she was invited to exercise by the trainers. From 2003 until the end of 2017 she trained with her personal trainer Aimee Boorman. Today Laurent Landi is her trainer.

Gymnastics World Championships

Biles won a total of 19 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals at the World Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp in 2013 , in Nanning in 2014 , in Glasgow in 2015 , in Doha in 2018 and in Stuttgart in 2019, in all five championships in the most prestigious discipline, im All around, won. This makes her the most successful participant in gymnastics world championships of all time. As the first gymnast ever, she was able to win the world title in the all-around three times in a row. At the 2018 World Gymnastics Championships , she was able to win a medal in all disciplines, something that only Jelena Schuschunowa had previously achieved in 1987. During the 2019 World Championships, she equalized and exceeded the record of 23 won medals set by Vitali Scherbo . As the first female athlete since Larissa Latynina in 1958, she won five gold medals at the same championship.

2016 Summer Olympics

Simone Biles won a total of four gold medals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro : on the ground, on the jump, in the team all-around and in the individual all-around. After a mistake she won bronze on the balance beam. She missed her target of winning five Olympic gold medals at the same Olympic Games, which no gymnast has ever achieved.

Own gymnastics elements

Biles has so far invented four elements in gymnastics named after her, two on the floor and one each on the vault and on the balance beam. At the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, she showed for the first time at international level the tucked double backflip with triple twist on the floor and the double somersault with double twist when leaving the balance beam. Both from then on bore her name. She had shown the element on the ground for the first time on August 11, 2019 during the US gymnastics championships in Kansas City, Missouri, but this was not yet sufficient for inclusion in the official points catalog. With this element she broke the previous scale of difficulty, in which the letter I stood for the maximum difficulty. Biles' element was classified with a "J" difficulty.

Taking methylphenidate

The hacker group Fancy Bear's or sofacy group published chopped data of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that at Biles at four doping tests that were carried out between the 11th and 16 August 2016 during the Olympic Games, the substance methylphenidate has been proven. Biles is allowed to take methylphenidate for ADHD with a special authorization (TUE) from the US Anti-Doping Agency . The doping expert Werner Franke told the magazine Der Spiegel : If someone is really jittery, then you have to calm them down, especially on the balance beam. Ritalin helps. That is why it is a widely used doping agent in gymnastics. Even if you don't want to admit it .

Abuse in the US gymnastics team

In January 2018, as part of the #MeToo campaign , Biles made public that she was being abused by the former team doctor of the American gymnastics team, Larry Nassar, at the Károlyi Ranch, the largest training center for gymnasts in the United States and owned by the coaching couple Béla and Martha Károlyi has been. Between September 2016 and November 2017, more than 150 women, including the gymnasts McKayla Maroney (mid-October 2017), Gabrielle Douglas and Alexandra Raisman (November 2017), who were abused by Nassar, registered. Because of the good training conditions, the US gymnasts continue to train at the Károlyi ranch. Biles said, "So I will have to continually return to the same training location where I was abused." Just a few days later, USA Gymnastics announced that it would no longer hold any more training camps at the Károlyi Ranch.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Simone Biles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. "My dad flipped on me - don't call, don't visit": Golden girl Simone Biles' ex-addict birth mom reveals bitter family rift after she was forced to give the Olympian up for adoption to her own mother and Father .
  2. Simone Biles on Twitter. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
  3. Nick Zaccardi: Simone Biles chooses UCLA. In: OlympicTalk. August 4, 2014, accessed August 23, 2016 .
  4. Simone Biles Soars, Lifting Another Country With Her , The New York Times. August 11, 2016. Accessed August 27, 2016. 
  5. Gymnast Simone Biles brings prayer to Rio and takes home gold. In: Religion News Service. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
  6. ^ Catholic Online: "My Catholic faith is very important to me": Two Catholic Olympians refuse to allow their faith to be swayed. In: Catholic Online. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
  7. ^ A b Reeves Wiedeman: A Full Revolution . The New Yorker, May 30, 2016.
  8. Wevers wins on the balance beam: Turnstar Biles misses Olympic record. n-tv.de, accessed on August 17, 2016.
  9. Steve Almasy: Simone Biles' vault is officially deemed "The Biles" - CNN. In: edition.cnn.com. December 21, 2018, accessed March 14, 2019 .
  10. USA Gymnastics statement regarding Simone Biles and WADA hack.
  11. Stand still on the balance beam . Der Spiegel 38/2016, p. 101.
  12. ^ Tim Evans: Former USA Gymnastics doctor accused of abuse . In: The Indianapolis Star . 18th October 2017.
  13. A terrible place. Spiegel Online, January 16, 2018.
  14. ^ Dan Murphy, John Barr: USA Gymnastics cuts ties with Karolyi Ranch training facility. January 19, 2018, accessed January 21, 2018 .