Simone Biles

Simone Biles is an American gymnast. Born on the 14th of March 1997 in Columbus, Ohio U.S.A. Biles was the first female gymnast from America in history to have won four gold medals at one Games. In Rio de Janeiro, she was also the first female to ever win successive World All-Around championships. Biles was raised within Spring Texas in the Houston metro area, where she and her sister Adria were adopted by their parents Ronald Biles and Nellie Biles. Simone began to take an interest in gymnastics when she was just six during a day-care field trip to Bannon's Gymnastix and stayed there for eleven years under supervision of coach Aimee Boorman. Biles took home a medal for vault as well as a gold medal on the floor gymnastics at the Women's Junior Olympic National Championships. In 2011, she began participating in the elite level of the sport. In less than two years, she dominated the sport. Biles's consistent, exuberant nature and high degree of effort in her four events -vault uneven bars balance beam floor workout and floor exercise -- set her above the others.