Simone Biles was born on March 14, 1997. She was born in Columbus, Ohio. She is from Spring, Texas. Spring is a suburb north of Houston. At age 6, she first tried gymnastics. It was on a field trip with her day-care group. As a child, she trained at Bannon's Gymnastics. She is 4 feet 8 inches tall, which is 142 centimeters.

Let us look at her sport. Women's artistic gymnastics has four events. They are vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise. Each routine gets two scores, and the two scores are added together. One is for difficulty, and one is for execution. Let us see how each one works, starting with execution, since it is the first score we will meet.

The execution score of a routine starts at 10.0 points. Judges take points off for each visible error. A step on a landing is one, and a fall is another. The difficulty score starts at zero. It goes up as harder skills are added to the routine. Now we know how both scores work, and we can look at the results.

Let us look at the Olympic Games. Simone has competed at three of them. They were in 2016, 2020 and 2024. At the 2016 Olympics in Rio, she won four gold medals. Her first Olympic gold came in the team event. It came on August 9. She won gold on the floor exercise. She won gold on the vault too.

Now let us look at 2024. At the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Simone won three gold and one silver. The silver was on the floor exercise. As of November 2026, she has won 11 Olympic medals. Seven of them are gold. Now let us see her record somewhere else.

Simone has won medals at the World Championships too. Let us see how many. As of November 2026, she has won 30 World Championship medals. Twenty-three of them are gold. Four are silver. Three are bronze.

Words to know

• routine: planned performance
• difficulty: how hard
• execution: how well done
• judges: score givers

The short version

Simone Biles is from Spring, Texas. She has competed at three Olympic Games: 2016, 2020 and 2024. As of November 2026, she has won 11 Olympic medals, 7 of them gold, and 30 World Championship medals. Gymnastics moves have been named after her.

Quick facts

• Simone Biles was born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio.
• At the 2016 Olympics in Rio, she won four gold medals.
• At the 2024 Olympics in Paris, she won three gold medals and one silver medal.
• As of November 2026, she has won 30 World Championship medals: 23 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze.