Simone Biles was the gymnastics GOAT lengthy earlier than she arrived in Paris for the 2024 Olympics.
Nevertheless, there are nonetheless names above her within the Olympic document books.
Biles is as much as 9 profession Olympic medals following her gold medal win within the particular person all-around Thursday.
Biles in Paris nonetheless has three extra occasions on her schedule — and three extra alternatives so as to add to her medal assortment.
The place does she rank amongst all gymnasts in Olympic historical past? Here is a have a look at the Olympians with probably the most gymnastics medals in every occasion:
Most Olympic gymnastics medals
Biles might rise as excessive as No. 2 in all-time girls’s Olympic gymnastics medals if she completes a sweep in Paris, however she’s nonetheless not even midway to the highest spot.
Listed here are the boys’s and girls’s gymnasts with probably the most Olympic medals all-time:
Girls’s
- Larisa Latynina, Soviet Union: 18 (9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze)
- Věra Čáslavská, Czechoslovakia: 11 (7 gold, 4 silver)
- Ágnes Keleti, Hungary: 10 (5 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze)
- Polina Astakhova, Soviet Union: 10 (5 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze)
- Nadia Comăneci, Romania: 9 (5 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze)
- Ludmilla Tourischeva, Soviet Union: 9 (4 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze)
- Simone Biles, United States: 9 (6 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
- Margit Korondi, Hungary: 8 (2 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze)
- Sofia Muratova, Soviet Union: 8 (2 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze)
Staff USA took two extra medals Thursday after Simone Biles gained gold and Suni Lee took bronze within the girls’s particular person all-around.
Males’s
- Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet Union: 15 (7 gold, 5 silver, 3 bronze)
- Boris Shakhlin, Soviet Union: 13 (7 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze)
- Takashi Ono, Japan: 13 (5 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze)
- Sawao Kato, Japan: 12 (8 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze)
- Alexei Nemov, Russia: 12 (4 gold, 2 silver, 6 bronze)
- Viktor Chukarin, Soviet Union: 11 (7 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze)
- Akinori Nakayama, Japan: 10 (6 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
- Vitaly Scherbo, Belarus/Unified Staff: 10 (6 gold, 4 bronze)
- Alexander Dityatin, Soviet Union: 10 (3 gold, 6 silver, 1 bronze)
Most Olympic particular person all-around medals
Latynina is the one gymnast to win three particular person all-around medals on the Olympics with two golds and one silver. Čáslavská is the one different girls’s gymnast to win a number of golds, whereas seven others have a number of medals within the occasion.
Japan’s Sawao Kato and Kōhei Uchimura are the main males within the occasion, having earned two golds and one silver apiece.
Most Olympic vault medals
Latynina leads all girls with three Olympic vault medals, however Čáslavská is the one girl to win two golds on the equipment.
Nikolai Andrianov is the one man with three Olympic vault medals, taking residence two golds and a bronze.
Most Olympic ground train medals
Latynina earned three straight golds within the ground train from 1956 to 1964. No different girl’s gymnast has three medals of any sort within the occasion.
Like vault, Andrianov is the one three-time Olympic medalist within the males’s ground occasion.
Most Olympic steadiness beam medals
Biles (two bronze) and fellow American Shannon Miller (one gold, one silver) are amongst eight girls to win a number of Olympic medals in steadiness beam. Biles has an opportunity to turn out to be the primary three-time steadiness beam medalist in Paris.
Comăneci is the one girl with a number of gold medals in steadiness beam.
Most Olympic uneven bars medals
Astakhova, Svetlana Khorkina and Aliya Mustafina every gained two gold medals in uneven bars.
4 different gymnasts have a number of Olympic medals within the occasion.
Most Olympic pommel horse medals
Nice Britain’s Max Whitlock jumped into the document books on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the place he gained his second straight gold medal and third medal total in pommel horse.
Boris Shakhlin, Miroslav Cerar and Zoltán Magyar additionally gained back-to-back golds within the occasion throughout their careers.
Most Olympic rings medals
Albert Azaryan and Akinori Makayama have probably the most Olympic rings golds with two apiece.
Twelve others have a number of medals within the occasion.
Most Olympic parallel bars medals
Li Xiaopeng’s three parallel bars medals are probably the most in Olympic historical past.
He’s joined by Kato as the one gymnasts to win two golds within the occasion.
Most Olympic excessive bar medals
Fabian Hambüchen has probably the most excessive bar medals on the Olympics with three.
Takashi Ono and fellow Japanese gymnast Mitsuo Tsukahara have probably the most golds with two every.
Staff USA’s Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Simone Biles began the ladies’s gymnastics workforce occasion with excessive scores on vault.