American Simone Biles becomes the first woman to win five all-around titles at the gymnastics world championships in Stuttgart
USA's Simone Biles performs on the balance beam during the women's all-around final at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart, southern Germany, October 10, 2019
Needing 12.301 in the floor exercise to reclaim her title in the final rotation, Biles scored 14.400 points to finish with an overall score of 58.999 – beating China's Tang Xijing by a huge margin of 2.100."It means the world to me," Biles told reporters. "For my fifth, that's kind of unheard of so it was really exciting.
A year ago in Doha, Biles competed with a kidney stone and started with a shocking fall on her vault routine, but there were no hiccups this time as she dictated the proceedings inside a packed arena. Biles did not perform her eponymous double-double dismount off the balance beam, a skill widely thought to be under-valued in difficulty by the International Gymnastics Federation. Yet she still finished with a leading score of 14.633 on the apparatus.
The 22-year-old is now just one short of Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo's record haul of 23 medals - a milestone she could surpass by the end of the individual events at the championships this weekend.
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