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Simone Biles
Simone Biles's medal count — 23 World Championship medals and 11 Olympic medals across three Games, 2016, 2020, and 2024 — is the largest in gymnastics history, a total built across nearly a decade of competition at a level of sustained dominance the sport had never previously seen from one athlete. Four separate skills across floor exercise, vault, and balance beam are named after Biles in the sport's official code of points — "the Biles" — each recognizing a move she was the first gymnast ever to successfully land in international competition, a level of technical innovation that's reshaped what's considered possible in elite gymnastics. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Biles withdrew from several finals citing "the twisties," a disorienting loss of spatial awareness mid-air that made continuing to compete physically dangerous, a decision that drew global attention to athlete mental health and was widely credited with normalizing conversations about withdrawing from competition for psychological safety reasons. She returned at the 2024 Paris Olympics to win three more golds, adding to a medal collection that, combined with her generation-defining skill difficulty and her willingness to publicly prioritize mental health over competing hurt, is why she's now almost universally regarded as the greatest gymnast in history.
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Kohei Uchimura
Kohei Uchimura, nicknamed "King Kohei," won the men's all-around world or Olympic title seven consecutive times between 2009 and 2016, a streak of global all-around dominance across both World Championships and Olympics that no male gymnast in history has come close to matching. His back-to-back Olympic all-around golds, at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Games, made him only the third man in Olympic history to repeat as all-around champion, and his margin of victory in Rio came down to a single event, the horizontal bar, where a near-perfect final routine overtook a Ukrainian rival who'd led for most of the competition. Uchimura's technical execution across all six men's apparatuses, rather than dominance concentrated in one or two specialties, is what set him apart from other elite gymnasts of his era — judges and rivals alike regularly cited his floor exercise and horizontal bar work as the cleanest in the sport. He also anchored Japan's team gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the country's first Olympic team title in 32 years, adding a team achievement to an individual résumé that already included more sustained all-around dominance than any male gymnast in the sport's history.
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