Simone Biles wins all-around title again at world gymnastics championships
Simone Biles performs her routine on the balance beam during the the world gymnastics championships on Friday.
Leading from start to finish, Simone Biles of the United States became the first woman in 11 years to win consecutive all-around gold medals at the gymnastics world championships in Nanning, China.
Biles, 17, who has said she will attend UCLA after the 2016 Olympics, posted the top floor score of 15.066 to finish with 60.231 points and successfully defend the title she won last year in Antwerp, Belgium.
Larisa Iordache of Romania won silver with 59.765 points, and Kyla Ross of the U.S. took bronze with 58.232.
Biles, who added to the gold she won in the women’s team event on Wednesday, is the first woman to win successive titles since Svetlana Khorkina of Russia in 2001-03, and the first American to win two straight since Shannon Miller in 1993-94.
As the last gymnast of the competition, Biles turned in an energetic Latin-flavored floor routine that included plenty of crowd-pleasing, complicated tumbling.
“I just tried to have fun with it,” Biles said. “My landings were a little crazy but I’m really happy with it.”
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