Simone Biles

Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast in World Championships history with 30 medals (23 gold), and she has won 11 Olympic medals (7 gold) across the 2016 Rio and 2024 Paris Games. Four gymnastics skills—the Biles on vault, floor, and beam—are named after her, requiring difficulty levels that no other competing gymnast has attempted, outperforming #6 Paavo Nurmi in technical innovation. At age 27, she returned from withdrawing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to win 4 gold medals in Paris, a feat 33% older than the average Olympic gymnast.