Paris 2024: Simone Biles wins another Gold in Olympics Individual vault

Paris Olympics, 

Saturday, 3 August, 2024 

McCreadie Andias 

Simone Biles won her third Gold medal at the Paris Olympics in the women's vault gymnastics on Saturday in Paris.

Teammate Jade Carey earned the bronze medal while Brazil's Rebeca Andrade took silver.

The vault champion in Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Rebeca Andrade, had a 14.966 average between her two vaults to comfortably earn silver.

Carey who teamed up with Bile In Team USA's gold triumph earned an average of 14.466 for her two vaults – a Cheng and a double-twisting Yurchenko. 

This was Carey's third Olympic medal to go with the floor exercise gold she won in Tokyo and the team gold captured on Tuesday.

Biles had just won the women's all-around individual on Thursday ahead of Brazilian Rebeca Andrade and teammates Sunisa Lee. 

On Saturday's afternoon event, Biles landed the Yurchenko double pike – which is the most difficult in the women's rulebook – to earn a 15.700.

In her second vault, she landed a "Cheng" - a half-turn onto the vaulting table followed by a 1.5 twist into the air - that earned a 14.900. This gave her an average of 15.300 for her two vaults, putting her comfortably in the lead.

Biles is the second woman to win vault twice, joining Vera Casalavska of Czechoslovakia as a two-time gold medalist on the vault. Casalavska went back to back in 1964 and 1968. The gold medal is Biles' 10th Olympic medal and seventh gold.

Biles has two more gold medals to collect if all goes in her favor as She will compete in the balance beam and floor exercise finals on Monday.