In 2013, when Simone Biles was just 16, she won her first world title. Overall, Biles won two World Championship gold medals that year followed by a total of eight more in the next two years, and she hasn't stopped. In her first Olympics in 2016 in Rio, she walked away with five medals — four gold and one bronze. She continued to earn win after win as she pushed the envelope with routines like the Yurchenko double pike on the vault, which is "considered so perilous and challenging that no other woman has attempted it in competition," The New York Times wrote back in 2021.

Along the way, Biles has earned lots of superlatives, from the above-mentioned title of most decorated women's gymnast in history to the "first woman to win five World floor exercise titles," per USA Gymnastics. She also has the most World Championship medals of either men or women (25) and the most gold (19).

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