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Another day, another record for Simone Biles. Her record performance at the 2018 World Championships in Doha began with the all-around final Thursday, where she won her fourth gold medal in total, making her the first woman to do so. She also tied Vitaly Scherbo for most of the gold medals at the 12-year-old world championships. The next day, she won the gold medal in the women's jump, which allowed her to break the gold medal record. She also won her first world medal on the bars, making her the first American to win a medal at the world championships on all four apparatuses.
And today, Biles has picked up the bronze on the beam and the exercise on the floor. The gold medal on the ground was her 20th world champion medal, bringing her closer to record of the former Russian star Svetlana Khorkina, who had accused Biles of doping last year in her memoirs . But Biles has more gold medals than Khorkina, which breaks the link that separates them, making Biles the most decorated gymnast in the history of the word world championship.
For a little while, it did not seem like it was going to happen. Biles was first to beam in the final and although she did not fall as she was in the all – around, she played quite shaky, shaking on the same talent as she did. she had fallen the other day and missing the links between her jumps. routine. When she won just 13.6 points after the session with another seven gymnasts – including 2016 Olympic Beam Olympic Champion – Netherlands Sanne Wevers – she did not feel she could keep a medal and aim for the record. There remained only one event to be done after the beam, the exercise on the ground. Biles was virtually badured of winning gold based on his mbadive starting value, but without a medal on beam, his total would be "only" 19 years old. I thought the record should wait for next year's World Championships in Stuttgart.
But then, gymnast after gymnast fell or had trouble following their routines. Kara Eaker, the 15-year-old beam specialist with the highest beam score in the team final, flew to her mount. Wevers fell on a ride. Nobody exceeded the Biles score until the penultimate rider ascended the beam. Ana Padurariu, a senior Canadian freshman in her first world championships, had a great routine ahead of Biles. And then the last gymnast, Liu Tingting, of China, finished last and managed a magnificent set to take the first place and the gold medal, making Biles fall to the bronze medal.
During the ground exercise, Biles won the gold medal one point over teammate Morgan Hurd. Silver medalist in multiple contest, Mai Murakami, won the bronze medal; the floor podium was almost identical to the all-around podium, but the second and third places were upset.
Hurd's ground money is his third of these championships. World Champion of the 2017 Multiple Contest also won gold by competition and bronze by multiple contest.
The six medals won by Biles in Doha allowed him to win medals in all competitions: team, multi-event, jump, bars, beam and floor. (Men have eight opportunities to win medals as they compete for two more apparatus.) Biles is only the fourth gymnast to achieve this performance in world or Olympic competitions. The last to do it before Biles was the Soviet Ludmilla Tourischeva at the 1974 world championships.
So, just a year and a day after returning to the gym to train full-time, Biles leaves Doha as the most decorated gymnast of all time at the world championships.
And she did everything with a kidney stone.
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