PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles earned her seventh Olympic gold medal by hovering to victory within the ladies’s vault closing on the Paris Video games on Saturday.
The 27-year-old Biles averaged 15.300 for her signature Yurchenko double pike and Cheng vaults to assert a second gold on the occasion eight years after she triumphed in Rio de Janeiro.
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Rebeca Andrade of Brazil, who completed runner-up to Biles within the all-around closing on Thursday, took silver, simply forward of American Jade Carey, who captured the bronze.
Biles is the second lady to win vault twice, becoming a member of Vera Casalavska of Czechoslovakia as a two-time gold medalist on the vault. Casalavska went again to again in 1964 and 1968. Biles now has 10 Olympic medals in her profession, tied for the third most by a feminine gymnast. She additionally boosted her medal rely at main worldwide competitions to 40, probably the most by any gymnast.
Simone Biles of the USA competes on the vault on the primary day of gymnastics occasion finals in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer season Video games at Bercy Enviornment, Paris, France, Aug. 3, 2024. Picture by Kyle Terada/USA TODAY Sports activities by way of Reuters
The gang inside a packed Bercy Enviornment roared when Biles was launched. Carrying a sequined pink leotard, she delivered one other show-stopping efficiency in what may very well be the final vault competitors of her life.
She drilled her Yurchenko double pike, exploding off the block after which flipping backward twice along with her palms clasped behind her knees. She landed with an enormous bounce — a nod to the power she generates — along with her proper foot on the out-of-bounds line.
The judges dinged her a tenth of a degree for that. It hardly mattered. Her rating of 15.700 meant she merely wanted to keep away from catastrophe on her second vault to win. As an alternative, she nearly caught her Cheng, which requires a roundoff onto the springboard, then a half twist onto the block adopted by 1 1/2 twists whereas doing a ahead somersault.
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The following 14.900 meant the remainder of the eight-woman subject was going for second.
Andrade, the vault champion in Tokyo, put collectively two glorious vaults to assert silver and her third medal of the Video games after a silver within the all-around and a bronze within the group closing. Andrade’s common of 14.966 was properly away from everybody else.
Carey, who slipped in the course of the ladies’s vault closing in Tokyo and completed eighth, earned her third Olympic medal to go along with the ground train gold she received in Tokyo and the group gold she captured with Biles on Tuesday.
Biles could have two extra possibilities to spice up her medal haul in Paris. She is going to compete within the stability beam and flooring train finals on Monday.
Pommel Horse Man does it once more
Two-time world champion Rhys McClenaghan claimed Eire’s first medal in Olympic gymnastics.
Rhys McClenaghan of Eire in motion in the course of the males’s pommel horse closing, Bercy Enviornment, Paris, France, Aug. 3, 2024. Picture by Amanda Perobelli/Reuters
Even earlier than his identify was introduced, McClenaghan needed to choke again tears. He then yelled in delight and cried for good when his huge rating of 15.533 factors on pommel horse was introduced.
Competing proper after McClenaghan, American gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik — aka “Pommel Horse Man” — was glorious, too, however couldn’t match his Irish rival’s rating. He scored 15.300 factors, which earned him the bronze medal.
Rhys McClenaghan of Eire celebrates after profitable gold within the males’s pommel horse closing with bronze medalist Stephen Nedoroscik of United States, in Bercy Enviornment, Paris, France, Aug. 3, 2024. Picture by Mike Blake/Reuters
Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan took silver with 15.433 factors.
Nedoroscik helped the U.S. males earn bronze within the group closing earlier this week, sealing this system’s first Olympic medal in 16 years with a lights-out routine that made him a viral sensation.
Yulo wins for the Philippines
Carlos Yulo received the second Olympic gold medal ever for the Philippines, edging defending champion Artem Dolgopyat of Israel within the males’s flooring train finals.
The 24-year-old Yulo scored 15.000, simply forward of Dolgopyat, the defending champion at 14.966. Jake Jarman of Britain claimed the bronze with a 14.933.
Carlos Edriel Yulo of Philippines in motion in the course of the males’s flooring train closing, Bercy Enviornment, Paris, France, Aug. 3, 2024. Picture by Hannah Mckay/Reuters
Yulo caught his triple-twisting dismount throughout his closing tumbling cross. He caught his arms out and roared inside a packed Bercy Enviornment earlier than strolling off the rostrum.
Yulo joins weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz as Olympic gold medalists from the Philippines. Diaz earned gold within the ladies’s 55-kilogram division in Tokyo three years in the past.
Related Press Author Samuel Petrequin contributed to this report.