Simone Biles Breaks 13 Records at 2024 Paris Olympics
To highlight a few of the records broken, Biles now holds the record for the longest gaps between gold medals won in individual all-around and vault (8 years) and Biles also tied the record for the most gold medals won for women’s vault (2) and most medals won for team all-around event (3). Biles also became the first American athlete to win two gold medals for Individual all-around and vault, the first American athlete to win 3 medals for gymnastics team events and she extended her record as the most awarded American gymnast at the Olympics of all time.
We have also been tracking the social media followers of Simone Biles during the Olympics and according to the results of our analysis, she has gained nearly 4 million new Instagram followers – before the start of the Olympics (25th of July), she had 7.495 million Instagram followers and now she has 11.264 million followers, thus gaining 3.769 million new followers in the last 14 days (+50.27% growth).
To see all of the records that Simone Biles broke at the 2024 Olympics, have a look below.
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GENERAL RECORDS
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Simone Biles significantly climbed up in the overall rankings of the female gold medalists in gymnastics at the Olympics – prior to the 2024 Olympics, she was sharing the 7th place with 3 other gymnasts (for winning 4 gold medals), and now she is in a joint 2nd place (tying Věra Čáslavská) with 7 gold medals after winning gold 3 times in Paris (team all-around, individual all-around & vault)
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Biles is now in 2nd place for the total amount of medals won (gold, silver, bronze) in women’s gymnastics events – 11 medals (7 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze) – Biles tied Věra Čáslavská, who also won 11 medals at the Olympics
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Simone Biles extended her record for the most awarded American gymnast at the Olympics with 11 medals (the closest to Biles is Shannon Miller with 7 medals won – after the 2024 Olympics, Biles broke out of the tie with Miller for the most overall medals won at the Olympics by an American athlete)
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Simone Biles joined an elite group of 29 athletes who have won more than 10 medals at the summer or winter Olympics during their careers – with 11 medals, Biles is now also in the top 6 of the American women with the most Olympic medals won, joining swimmers Katie Ledecky, Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres, Natalie Coughlin and the track and field athlete Alysson Felix
INDIVIDUAL ALL-AROUND ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS EVENT
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Simone Biles broke the record of Larisa Latynina and Věra Čáslavská for the longest gap between gold medals in Individual all-around artistic gymnastics event at the Olympics – both Latynina and Čáslavská won in consecutive Olympic games 4 years apart, while Biles won 8 years after winning her first gold medal in Rio (having said that, Biles now also holds the record regardless of gender, because no male gymnast has ever won a gold medal in the Individual all-around artistic gymnastics event 8 years after his first win, only consecutively)
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Simone Biles is now one of only 3 female gymnasts to win the Individual all-around artistic gymnastics gold medal at the Olympics two times
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Simone Biles became the first American athlete (male or female) to win two gold medals for Individual all-around event
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Simone Biles’ victory in the Individual all-around artistic gymnastics event helped to break the tie between the United States and the former Soviet Union, and the USA are now the sole holder of the record for the most gold medals in the female Individual all-around artistic gymnastics event at the Olympics with 7 gold medals
VAULT GYMNASTICS EVENT
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Simone Biles tied Věra Čáslavská for the most gold medals in the women’s vault event at the Olympics (2 gold medals)
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Simone Biles now holds the record for the longest gap between two gold medals in vault gymnastics event (8 years), regardless of gender
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Simone Biles became the first American athlete (male or female) to win two Olympic gold medals in vault
TEAM ALL-AROUND ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS EVENT
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After winning gold in Rio, silver in Tokyo and gold once again in Paris for the Team all-around artistic gymnastics event at the Olympics, Simone Biles tied the record of Polina Astakhova, Larysa Latynina, and Ludmilla Tourischeva for the most medals won (by individual gymnasts) for that event (3 medals)
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Simon Biles also became the first American gymnast to win 3 medals for the gymnastics team events
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Author: David Keech
David Keech is a retired teacher and works as a sportswriter, sports official and as an educational consultant. He has reported on amateur sports since 2011, known as 'KeechDaVoice.' David can be reached at [email protected]
