Simone Biles Wins Sixth US Championship
On Sunday (August 11), the five-time Olympic medalist received her sixth all-around nationwide title on the 2019 U.S. Gymnastics Championship in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, tying Clara Schroth Lomady’s 1952 report.
Not solely did Biles take dwelling the trophy, she rewrote the historical past books within the course of. Throughout her Sunday flooring train, she pulled off a triple-double, a transfer of two flips with three twists that has by no means been landed by a gymnast in competitors. She tried the jaw-dropping feat on Friday in flooring train preliminaries, however used her hand to catch her from falling on the touchdown, negating its profitable completion.
“I did not need to be the final individual to see it,” Biles mentioned of seeing her pull off the transfer on video, in keeping with ESPN, “so I went on-line to see what it regarded like, in order that me and [coach Laurent Landi] may watch it. However I used to be more than happy that I truly landed it this time in competitors.”
On Saturday, Biles additionally set the stage for one more transfer to be named after her. Whereas on the stability beam, she efficiently landed a double-twisting, double somersault dismount, which has by no means been tried in Championship competitors by anybody not to mention landed.
If she’s in a position to efficiently land the strikes in worldwide competitors, the triple-double and double-twisting, double somersault will formally be named after Simone Biles, in keeping with a Crew USA press launch.
Congratulations to Simone Biles for profitable one other title and making historical past multi functional weekend.