Simone Biles further expanded her legend after winning her twenty-third gold medal at the World Championships, winning this Sunday in the balance beam and vault finals in the Belgian city of Antwerp.
Simone Biles' new jump, three meters high upside down and 150 revolutions per minute: “Gymnastics has changed”
If on Saturday Biles had to 'settle' for only a silver medal, after being beaten in the floor final by the Brazilian Rebeca Andrade, this Sunday she made it clear why she is unanimously considered the best gymnast of all time.
She demonstrated this on the balance beam, where she already achieved the best score of all the participants in the qualifying round and was once again the best with a brilliant exercise without any cracks.
The one from Ohio, who had already won the gold medal in Antwerp in both the individual and group competitions, achieved first position with a score of 14,800 points.
One tenth of a point more than the Chinese Yaqin Zhou, silver with 14,700, and half a point more than the Brazilian Rebeca Andrade, who occupied the last step of the podium with a score of 14,300.
The victory did not appease the voracity of Simone Biles, who just an hour later returned to the top of the podium after winning the floor final with a score of 14.633 points.
Not even a small mistake in the third diagonal, in which she took one foot off the mat, which cost her a penalty of 0.100 points, prevented Biles from winning, starting with a note of difficulty unattainable for the rest of her rivals.
In fact, both Rebeca Andrade, silver, and Flavia Saraiva, bronze, achieved a better execution score in the final than the American, but the greater complexity of Biles's elements, which started with a difficulty score of 6.700, relegated the two Brazilians to second and third place, respectively.
Although the gap seems to be narrowing, as evidenced by the 0.133 points with which Andrade, who achieved a score of 14.500, had to settle for the silver medal, while Saraiva won the bronze with a score of 13.966.
A demonstration of the constant progression of Brazilian gymnastics, although insufficient to stop the cyclone Biles, who on her return to the major competition after giving up participating in the final of the all-around competition at the last Tokyo Olympic Games to take care of her mental health , endorsed her status as the undisputed queen of world gymnastics.
Hashimoto
A crown that in the men's category was won by the Japanese Daiki Hashimoto, who added this Sunday to the title of world champion in the group and individual categories, the gold medal in the fixed bar final.
Hashimoto, who last year had to settle for silver at the World Cups in Liverpool, won with a score of 15.233 with the victory ahead of the Croatian Tin Srbic, silver with 14.700, and the Chinese Weide Su, bronze with 14.500 points.
Likewise, the German Lukas Dauser moved up one place on the podium compared to the last World Cups in Liverpool, winning with a score of 15.400 in the parallel final against the Chinese Cong Shi, second with 15.066, and the Japanese Kaito Sugimoto, third with 15,000 units.
The British Jake Jarman was crowned the new jumping world champion with a score of 15.050, in a final in which the American Khoi Young took the silver with a score of 14.849 and the Ukrainian Nazar Chepurnyi the bronze with a score of 14.766.