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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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Shannon Miller
Shannon Miller won seven Olympic medals across the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Games, the most of any American gymnast in history, a total that stood unmatched among US gymnasts for more than two decades until Simone Biles eventually surpassed it. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Miller anchored the "Magnificent Seven," the US women's team that won America's first-ever Olympic team gold in gymnastics, a breakthrough victory that came in front of a home crowd and is still considered one of the defining moments in American gymnastics history. Miller also won the all-around gold at the 1993 World Championships, becoming the first American, male or female, to win that title, a level of individual global dominance that predated her Olympic team success and established her as the sport's top American competitor of the early 1990s. After retiring from competitive gymnastics, Miller became a prominent advocate for women's health following her own 2011 ovarian cancer diagnosis, using her platform from the sport to raise awareness — a second act that, combined with her seven Olympic medals, cemented her legacy well beyond her competitive career alone.
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